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Northern Pulp's plan to install a new effluent pipe in the Northumberland Strait is a problem.
The company says that recent sonar imaging shows the proposed route of the pipeline and that its discharge position needs to change due to a sinking. The area.
"This is a shipwreck that was discovered in July 2015," said Kathy Cloutier, director of communications for Paper Excellence, the company that owns the Northern Pulp plant at Abercrombie.
. Pictou Harbor fell on an intact shipwreck in July 2015, decades old (John Tapper)
New data provide more accurate measurements of underwater structure, she said. "We will have to stay as far from this as possible and sonar has also found a collapsed jetty and a shoal."
Extended sonar tests were part of an badessment that the company has undertaken over the past three months. [19659008] Spokesperson Kathy Cloutier says the proposed route for the effluent pipe will have to be changed due to obstacles like a sinking, a collapsed jetty and a shoal. (CBC)
The planned route for the treated effluent pipe is badumed to go to a new effluent treatment facility at Abercrombie Point in the Strait.
The collection of images was necessary for the company to prepare its complex engineering plan for the line.
"You enter this kind of project hoping for the least obstacles, but when you face it, you face it and it's really where we are right now," he said. Cloutier
Fishermen in the area do not want to see effluent pipes in the Strait.
"We have" We told them that the waters of the area were too shallow and that Northern Pulp was find a new solution, "said Ronnie Heighton, president of the Northumberland Fishermen's Association
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The Province has promised to close the Boat Harbor Effluent Treatment Facility in Pictou County by January 2020. (Steve Lawrence / CBC)
Jill Graham-Scanlan , president of the Friends of the Northumberland Strait, agrees. 19659002] She says that the NOPIPE Earth and Sea Rally scheduled for Friday is now more important than ever.
"Friday's rally will be the moment to show that many people are watching the North Pulp and the provincial government and that people are unprepared Graham-Scanlon
The gathering in Pictou should attract a large number fishing boats, pleasure boats and concerned citizens of the three Maritime Provinces Critics of the Northumberland Strait are also asking Northern Pulp to make their new plans public immediately.
Cloutier says they continue to perform other tests, but because of the latest discoveries, an environmental badessment that they planned to file this month back in the fall
Northumberland Strait fishermen do not want see effluent pipes in the area. (CBC)
The province ordered Northern Pulp to close the existing Boat Harbor harbor. 39, here the end of January 2020.
"We have always said that the timetable set by the government was tight," Cloutier said. "Any impact on our schedule certainly complicates things."
Changing the plan of a site for the discharge pipe could add a significant cost to the project if the company were to do more work during the months d & # 39; winter.
For 50 years, wastewater from pulp mills – from a number of mill owners – was shipped under the East River in Boat Harbor Lagoon. From there, it is aerated in settling ponds before being released about a week later into the Northumberland Strait.
