About the RITE Plan

The “R.I.T.E. plan” is more of a concept then a "plan" but it stands for Respectful discussion and process leading to an Innovative and Taxpayer friendly sewage treatment that is Environmentally beneficial.

We are a very loose group of people comprised of

• waste water engineers and designers with several decades experience
• scientists with several PhDs on related topics
• land use planners
• community leaders
• journalists
• political candidates and sitting elected representatives
• engineers and geoscientists
• environmentally concerned citizens
• experts in various related fields
• plus a lot of regular people

The outcomes we want include;

• We seek significant cost savings.
• We seek significant revenue.
• We seek an outcome that cleans the water to the level that it can be re-used in different ways or discharged into local waterways instead of still polluting the ocean with effluent.
• We seek to have this reclaimed water used to benefit the public. 
• We are concerned about water shortages, just up island, and feel it is silly to waste water here, in the CRD, when our neighbours need it so much.
• We recognize that by cleaning the water thoroughly we are now left with all the toxins concentrated in the residual solids.
• We must not take the pollution from the ocean (current situation), concentrate it, and then transfer it to the land or air.
• We want to economically extract all valuable compounds possible from the residuals.
• The toxins in the sewage residuals must be completely destroyed and not spread on land.  (Did you know that the current plan by the CRD is to ship the residuals up island to be “used beneficially”.  These are the words usually used to say “spread on land”.)
• We must completely destroy antibiotic resistant organisms and their DNA, that flourish in sewage treatment.
• We want to convert the residuals into mainly energy (energy equals money) with small amounts of ash that can be safely used in construction materials.

Keep in the loop by joining our FaceBook group.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/theriteplan/ or send an email to theriteplan@gmail.com and ask to receive our updates.   Someday we might even rework the website: theriteplan.ca
Twitter: @theriteplan