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“It’s terrible,” she said. “It’s embarrassing and it’s smelly and I don’t like to On certain nights come go outside. And it’s a nuisummer, Jeanie and Ken sance.” The Comox Valley Water Manness are reminded they live below a sewage Pollution Control Centre, treatment plant that year located on Brent Road in after year has been poison- Area B, was built in 1984. The plant, which treats ing the air. Grandchildren and other wastewater from Courtevisitors are forced indoors nay and Comox, includes an odour control to escape system that the smell, which lingers The only thing was installed in 1997. and clings you can do is get When she to curtains has called and rugs if away from it. Go to complain it sneaks inside, shut your inside. doors and windows. about the smell, plant The couple workers have moved to Even the chimney, told Steel their Curtis the smell comes that mainRoad home down there … This tenance was 12 years is a constant, big being perago. Lately, or it seems the smell. It affects your formed, their hands stench has life. were tied by become more Jeanie Manness an Odour noticeable. C o n t r o l “The smell is so awful, like a chemical, Policy — which she does fecal mixture smell,” said not consider an acceptable Jeanie, who figures at least response. She is gathering back22 homes in the neighbourhood near Point Holmes are ground information about affected by the smell. “The the history of the treatment only thing you can do is plant, which she hopes to get away from it. Go inside, share with neighbours on a shut your doors and win- private website. Steel has discovered that dows. Even the chimney, the smell comes down there the smell is nothing new. … This is a constant, big After residents launched a case that resulted in an smell. It affects your life.” Jenny Steel, who has out-of-court settlement in lived with her husband on 1991, the regional district Curtis Road since 2011, agreed to install odour says the air tends to stink control measures. The bigin the summer when the gest problem was caused air is still. ... see UPGRADED ■ 2 Scott Stanfield Record Staff
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THE IRONICALLY NAMED Gale Force was washed ashore in the Comox Valley by Sunday’s storm.
Comox Valley battered by storm
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Most of the Comox Valley was in the dark as a strong storm lashed the Island Sunday. Nearly 16,000 Comox Valley homes were without power between 7 and 8 p.m., at the peak of the storm, according to BC Hydro spokesperson Ted Olynyk. “It seemed like all but one area was hit with an outage,” Olynyk said Monday morning. “It was a very big storm for the Comox Valley.” Olynyk added BC Hydro crews worked throughout the night and he received
updates from the line manager regularly into the morning hours. “It was quite amazing the crews were able to get pretty much all the power back on except for about 1,000 customers last night. Now, we’re down to a few hundred,” he continued. “It was great work last night to bring that many customers back on.” Olynyk expected all power to be restored Monday, but noted it could take longer for a few customers if their service lines (line connecting a home to BC Hydro line) were knocked out. He added the intensity of Sunday’s storm was unusual for this time of year.
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“It was a pretty powerful storm. This is something we’d normally expect in November. Certainly wouldn’t expect a storm of this intensity in September,” he said. “I know that north of Nanaimo the wind speeds clocked at over 120 (kilometres per hour).” Meanwhile, BC Ferries spokesperson Deborah Marshall noted the storm caused 40 sailing cancellations on nine routes throughout their fleet. Sailings between Little River and Powell River were suspended at 3:15 p.m. and two round trips were cancelled. Two round trips were also cancelled on this route midday Saturday
due to high wind. Five sailings were cancelled on the Departure Bay to Horseshoe Bay route and service was suspended on the Duke Point to Tsawwassen route at 8:15 p.m., cancelling four sailings. “Safety is our No. 1 priority and on occasion it is necessary to delay or cancel service during severe wind storms,” said Marshall. All routes were back to their regular schedules by Monday morning. For more information about power outages, visit www.bchydro.com/outages. For more information about BC Ferries sailings, visit www.bcferries.com.
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