Last week, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals made a news splash with their suggestion that they could buy naming rights to Halifax’s failed sewage plant. Of course, there’s no chance at all that the city will take PETA up on the offer, but it got us here at The Coast thinking: Why doesn’t the plant have a name?

Last year, the city of San Francisco had a referendum on the question of renaming its sewage plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant. But that effort failed—evidently, the voters realized that San Francisco’s sewage plant is actually functioning and providing a useful public service, unlike the former president, who made everything he touched even crappier.

Still and all, here’s Halifax’s sewage plant, sitting on Upper Water Street, busted, a source of great embarrassment, not to mention stink. And it has no name.

Surely you readers can come up with a fitting name, and so we’re turning it over to you. Whoever of you comes up with the best name, as deemed by other readers, will win an utterly crappy prize.

Here are the rules:
1. Propose a name, in the comments to this post. The first person to suggest a particular name has rights to that name and any variations on that name (i.e, you can’t trump an earlier commenter’s suggestion of the “Peter Kelly sewage plant” with the “Peter J. Kelly sewage plant.”
2. Entries must be received by 12 noon Friday, August 28.
3. All suggestions will be posted on thecoast.ca as a readers’ poll. That poll will be open until 12 noon Monday, August 31. Top vote-getter wins.

The crappy prize: Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Puzzle Book #3, a $15.95 value graciously donated by the good folks at Atlantic News, PLUS bragging rights and periodic mention in The Coast.

Related Stories

How the sewage plant broke

Halifax’s treatment plant failed seven months ago Friday, but only now do we know what happened. For the first time, The Coast examines exactly what went wrong, why it went wrong, how to fix it and the lessons learned. Now, with video!

Peter Kelly wears the sewage disaster

Because the mayor won’t release the new forensic audit and break the wall of secrecy around Halifax’s broken sewage treatment plant, he’ll end up owning the whole mess.

This article appears in Aug 20-26, 2009.

46 replies on “Contest! Name the sewage plant, win a crappy prize!”

  2. The Gerald A. Regan Sewage Treatment Facility
    It’s decrepit site still offends us to this day for its many failures, and (sexual) offences

    [Editor’s note: Regan was charged with a variety of sexual assaults, but was never convicted of those charges. Read Stephen Kimber’s comments about this here: http://www.stephenkimber.com/content.php?cid=20%5D

  9. Sloan Sewage Treatment Plant (named after the ex-patriot band and William Elvis Sloan, inventor of the Flushometer)

  34. Hm… a big, stinky, divisive embarassment.

    At the risk of sounding derivative of San Fancisco’s idea, I actually think the most suitable name would come from our own embarassing national leader. Accordingly, I propose the Stephen Harper Institution of sewage Treatment.

  38. how about:

    “Backupincan Palace” or “Fuckupingham Palace” Alternatively, lets just call it Melrose Place… they are both shit, after all

Comments are closed.