When bad weather hits, the Regional District of Mount Waddington might as well be in the middle of the wilderness.The district, on the northern end of British Columbia’s Vancouver Island, is only five hours’ drive from the capital city of Victoria in the south. But its 17,000 residents across several small and remote communities lose electrical power frequently, and so do the plants that treat their wastewater.“It is not uncommon to have outages of 12 or more hours multiple times each year, particularly in winter,” says Paul Getman, contract operator for the Coal Harbour water and wastewater systems as well
