The project to release treated effluent from the sewage treatment plant through a deep outfall pipe into Satellite Channel is being delayed.
The Joint Utility Board estimates the cost to build the land and marine route pipeline is now $95 Million, up from $27 Million when the project was first proposed in 2016.
North Cowichan Mayor Rob Douglas says they now need to lobby for additional funding from the province.
“We’re now looking at close to a hundred million dollars in costs for this project to relocate the sewage outfall, which is well beyond what the City of Duncan, or the Municipality of North Cowichan and other partners such as Cowichan Tribes, and CVRD areas D and E can afford.”
Douglas says there is an agreement with Cowichan Tribes to remove the effluent outfall from the Cowichan River.
The sewage treatment plan is owned by the City of Duncan and Municipality of North Cowichan.
It is located on Cowichan Tribes land and managed by the Joint Utilities Board.
