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City of Port Alberni utilities superintendent Brian Mousley explains the workings of the city’s sewage lagoon to an E.J. Dunn Middle School Grade 8 class last month.
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o you know where your water comes from? What about where it goes when you flush your toilet? If the answer to either question is no, try asking your nearest eighth grader. At the end of April, all of School District 70’s Grade 8 students had a chance to see the city of Port Alberni’s
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entire water toilets they distribution know it travels system from through another source to sewer. set of pipes “It gives them and goes to an idea of how the [sewage] – Sheena Falconer lagoon.” it goes from the intake to This is the our water reservoirs to second year of Source to their taps when they get Sewer, a joint initiative home at night,” said Brian between Mousley and West Mousley, the city’s utilities Coast Aquatic’s Sheena superintendent. “Then when Falconer. they go to use their washing “Brian [Mousley] and I got machines and showers and together and thought ‘we
need to bring this to school kids, we want every kid to know how it works.’” Not knowing how the city’s basic utilities function is something Falconer sees as a knowledge gap in the population—not just in school kids. “It’s so important but no one really teaches it. Learning from a book just isn’t the same. We should be offering it to everybody.” Continued / A2
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