Pipe breakage an issue for sewage plan, says watershed group

A plan to pipe wastewater across the Hillsborough River from Stratford to Charlottetown worries the chair of the Stratford Area Watershed Improvement Group.

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The province, federal government, and municipalities announced funding last week to build a pipe to send Stratford's waste to Charlottetown for treatment. Watershed group chair Winston Maund is concerned about how secure a pipeline would be.

"Once you let it out in pipes you always have this chance of the pipes breaking," said Maund.

"That could be devastating, really devastating to the fishery, to the whole community. That's a great environmental risk right there."

Maund would have preferred for Stratford to build its own sewage treatment plant.

He did say that sending the waste to Charlottetown will be an improvement on the town's current lagoon system.

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