{"id":763548,"date":"2026-06-27T00:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763548\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:09:15","slug":"metro-vancouver-names-team-for-independent-review-of-wastewater-plant-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763548\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Vancouver names team for independent review of wastewater plant project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782518955_985_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The container ship Ballenita passes under the Lions Gate Bridge after leaving port, in Vancouver, B.C., Monday, May 18, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Darryl Dyck<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJun 26, 2026 | 3:36 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 An independent team has been announced for the review of the North Shore wastewater treatment plant project where costs ballooned to almost five times the original budget. <\/p>\n<p>The Metro Vancouver regional district says in a statement that the team will be led by Rob Andrews, who is listed on LinkedIn as the senior vice-president of infrastructure at consultant group EXP Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The district says the proposal for the review has also been approved by the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District Board, and the team will have \u201cfull access\u201d to Metro Vancouver\u2019s records on the project\u2019s history, finances and governance.<\/p>\n<p>Metro Vancouver said earlier this month that lawyer Randal Kaardal would finalize terms with the team conducting the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The container ship Ballenita passes under the Lions Gate Bridge after leaving port, in Vancouver, B.C., Monday, May&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-763548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}