Esquimalt Council met for the first time to discuss the CRD's decision build a single tertiary plant at McLaughlin Point.
Mayor Barb Desjardins says it wasn't the answer that anyone in the town wanted but they have to deal with it.
“I think that’s what we heard from residents as well. They’re not happy but they recognize that this is going to happy and they would like information and I think that is healthy.”
Desjardins says the community still has the opportunity to provide input into the design through the development permit process.
Councillor Tim Morrison warned the project would become: “The Johnson Street Bridge fiasco on steroids.”
“Sorry I am not going to sit her and hold hands with the region and sing kumbaya and I will not indulge or enable any such risk to our tax payers both here in Esquimalt and across the region.”
Morrison says there are many unanswered questions around the $765 million project that will see a treatment plant at McLaughlin Point and a bio solids treatment facility in Saanich.
In the end, nearly all the councillors voted to get more information about the project from the CRD.