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Strong man on the track
Mitch Kovacs watches as Olympic-medallist Dylan Armstrong gives a lesson in the hammer throw to the Revelstoke Secondary School track & field team on Friday. Armstrong, who won bronze in the shot put at the 2008 Beijing Olympics was in Revelstoke at the behest of track coach Andy Pfeiffer, who helped run track meets years ago when Armstrong was a rising star thrower at Westsyde Secondary School in Kamloops. Armstrong coached the students in all throwing disciplines — hammer, discus, javelin and his specialty — the shot put. “It’s cool to have him really focus on what you’re doing,” said Kovachs. ~ Alex Cooper/Revelstoke Times Review
Report provides bad news about sewer stench ALEX COOPER
alex.cooper@revelstokereview.com There’s good news and bad news in the latest city report on the sewer smell issue. Well, mostly bad news. The good news is that work to install an odour scrubber in the headworks building is well underway and expected to finish soon. That should mean there will be less smell coming from the building. The bad news – and it’s really bad if you live in Southside – is that the current odour
problems aren’t only coming from the headworks building, they’re coming from the lagoons themselves. A report to council by Mike Thomas, the city’s engineering director, says the stench coming from the sewage treatment plant right now is likely the result of the warm weather that changed conditions in the lagoons at the sewage treatment plant. Public works staff has taken steps to alleviate the problem, but the smell has continued. They’ve increased aeration of the first lagoon, they’ve pumped effluent
from the second lagoon into the first one, they’ve held the sewage in the first lagoon for longer to give it more time to digest, and they’ve added sodium nitrate to oxygenate the lagoon. “These protocols have seen an apparent improvement in the health of the pond, however as temperatures have continued to increase, the odour has continued,” writes Thomas. The city is also looking at the sewage mix to see if people are dumping things into the system that they’re not allowed to, like chemicals, septic waste, oils, greases, and
high and low pH liquids. They are also looking at recommendations made by Stephen Horsman, an engineer with AECOM, the firm that initially studied the source of the odour in 2013. In his July 2013 study of the smell, Horsman attributed the odour to hydrogen sulfide (H2S) caused by the treatment process. The highest concentrations of H2S were in the headworks building, where it topped out at 13.3 parts per million. Readings see Sewer, page 11
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