10-26-2021, 12:52 PM
(10-26-2021, 11:19 AM)tomh009 Wrote:(10-26-2021, 10:31 AM)KingandWeber Wrote: Yeah it's hard not to roll your eyes at this one. It's only green in name, but in reality just some suburban homes with green features. Also, I do not like the idea at all that they want the Region to agree to take over their wastewater treatment system if they fail to upkeep it. No thank you.
Before we moved downtown, we lived in Heidelberg. The subdivision had its own wastewater treatment plant, built in the 1970s, which the region subsequently took over and now maintains. I don't think this part is fundamentally flawed as long as the plant is built (and maintained) to proper standards -- it saves the region the capital cost of building such a plant.
Well, it might save the capital cost, but it's another example of the cities subsidising rural and suburban homeowners.
A small plant to service a single subdivision will not benefit from the efficiency of scale that the city does.