Tofino remade itself from a fishing village's declining economy to a vacation destination. Raw sewage and polluted beaches were the last issue to be resolved to aid the burgeoning economy driven by hundreds of tourists yearly.
https://epaper.vancouversun.com/vancouver-sun/20240831/page/12
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Victoria stopped the practice several years ago pressured by citizens and Washington State to stop flushing into the ocean.
"The Greater Victoria area no longer uses surrounding ocean waters to flush away raw effluent now that a $775 million sewage plant has started treating the equivalent of 43 Olympic-sized pools of waste daily."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/victoria-sewage-plant-1.5867582#:~:text=The%20Greater%20Victoria%20area%20no,sized%20pools%20of%20waste%20daily.