Recent aerial photos [above], taken and submitted by local pilot Tye Leishman this past weekend, show how different the landscape looks at qathet Regional District’s resource-recovery centre since the Peak published pictures and a video from above the construction site in August of 2023.
The following month, in late September, Peak reporter Paul Galinski was taken on a tour of the facility. At that time, full operation was scheduled for mid-2024.
The site will have four allowable end uses, according to information provided during the tour, including an overflow parking for Willingdon Beach functions, botanical gardens, public trails and the resource-recovery centre and transfer station.
In July of 2016, the regional district announced it had received a $6-million grant from the federal government to clean up the former waste-incinerator site near Willingdon Beach and build a resource-recovery centre.
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