Harbour Cleanup is finally complete, which means you won’t be seeing – or hopefully, smelling – raw sewage being pumped into the ocean at Long Wharf, Marsh Creek, and elsewhere.
Tim Vickers, the outgoing director of ACAP, explains he was shocked and saddened one day to go down by the Harbour Passage and see a man fishing for rainbow smelt that were feeding directly on the untreated outflow from a sewer pipe.
“They were feeding on that – and he was feeding on them,” Vickers explains. “[I felt] resentment for the social apathy to the situation, an economic environment that thwarted investment toward resolving this, or a lack of a strategic plan to finally bring this thing to a resolution.”
The Harbour Cleanup project has been ongoing since 2006, and the final piece of infrastructure – the Mill Street lift station – was commissioned last month.
