ednesday, July 6, 1988

THE REVIEW 9781-2nd St., Sidney B.C.

Wednesday, July 61988 THE REVIEW 978)-2nd St Sidney BC

Sludge project pondered

Sewage sludge from Bazan
Bay Treatment Plant could
soon be fertilzing Saanich
Peninsula farm land if a- pro-
posed test project is successful.

Sludge from the plant is now

- dumped into the bay but pro-
--vincial

environment officials
say that practice can’t continue.
The Capital Regional District

ig considering drying the sludge

for use as soil conditioner, said
Shamus McDonnell CRD
manager of engineering service.

To test the idea the CRD,
North Saanich council. and
Agriculture Canada’s Quarin-
tine Station are working toward
a pilot project which would dry
the sludge for use it as an soil
‘additive at the station.

“It is an exciting little pro-
ject,’’ said Igor Zahynacz | North
Saanich municipal engineer.

- The project would involve
building 600 square feet of

about 10 per cent of Bazan

_ Bay’s sludge, Zahynacz said.

A 10-inch. layer..of sludge
would be placed on the beds and
dried for about three weeks.

The station would then add it
to non-consumable. crops such
as grass.and forage corn.

While CRD officals tested the
project for health hazards, the
station’s scientist would test the
product’s viability as a_ fer-
tilizer.

’Quaratine station manager .

William Lanterman notes that
using human waste on crops is
hardly a new idea. It’s been us-
ed in a number of countries in
Europe and Asia for centuries.

; But he cautions that his sta-
tion has no expertise in the

health aspects of the project.

Agriculture Canada’s contribu-
tion would be in supplying a test
area for the sludge and assessing
its impact on crops.

project would cost about
$21,000, McDonnell said.

If the pilot proves successful
all the sludge from the Bazan
Bay Sewage Treatment Plant
could be dried on a 6,000 square
foot drying bed — just a little
larger than an average city lot.

This would produce about 60
cubic feet of dried sludge a week
which, initially, would be given
away to local farmers.

While McDonnell hopes the
sludge drying project will be

-viable for the Bazan Bay, he-

doubts. it could be used for

either of the other two Penin-”

sula treatment plants in Sidney
or Central Saanich.

Both are considerably larger
than Bazan Bay. They also con-
tain more industrial sewage
than Bazan Bay, which collects
strictly residential sewage. In-

dustrial sewage normally has -
levels of heavy metals which are |

too high for fertilizer use:

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