To the editor,
I would like to thank Tim for a job well done. It’s a
well-researched article on Peter Kelly’s sewage disaster.
It apalls me to think that my nose is right and my tax dollars are
down the drain—at $333 million and climbing.
I work next to the harbour at a large public school, adjacent to one
of the largest combined soccer fields in Metro. Myself and many
colleagues have walked the area during the past year enjoying our newly
cleaned harbour and fresher smelling air. My sniffer was in full
swing.
Sometime this spring we heard the usual sound in the halls of the
school: “Eww, what is that smell?” and replied, “Oh that must be the
kids’ boots,” or “It’s spring in the air.” It did not take long for us
to realize that “smell” was not usual, nor was it light.
Today of all days was the clincher. Sewage smell was coming straight
from the harbour. We are not close to the CSOs, but we are certainly in
the wind path. Disgusting, nauseating and painfully obvious to all.
What do we say to our visitors? “Oh, that’s only the ocean breeze?”
It sure is, and my sniffer is still working well. Sigh.
—Manon L. Roy, Dartmouth
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This article appears in Jul 2-8, 2009.
Crappy smell and an old school owned by DND and now mostly filled with kids bussed into the school because their parents don’t want them to mix with poor kids, coloured kids, kids with learning disabilities, kids with special needs. And they put the kids out of the door at 7.15 in the morning and not home until 3.30 pm. Much better off going to a local school, getting exercise by walking and avoiding the incredible contribution to global warming from all those buses running around Dartmouth, Cole Harbour & Eastern Passage. No smell at my local primary school.