Brewery to get another extension today at COW meeting ? (Moving environmental intensity charges at work )

Today at the Cow meeting the original deadline of Dec. 31,2006 will be once again extended to June 30,2008. Left unreported in the staff's report is the cost estimation that would be incurred by Okanagan Springs Brewery if this bylaw had been enforced. (last Spring the estimation was in excess of $100,000 at the old rates.) The Staff is also recommending that they change the bylaw in the strength area of bylaw 4863 to reduce the onerous burden on this plant !

The link below gives you the solutions that Sleeman's used in their Guelph plant in 2003 http://www.oceta.on.ca/documents/sleeman_fnl.pdf Sleeman’s Guelph Operation Cost Efficiencies in the Brewing Business Highlights• On-site carbon dioxide recovery system with potential savings of $150,000/yr• 30% potential reduction in water and sewer costs, saving $62,500/yr•

OKANAGAN SPRING BREWERY ENFORCEMENT AGREEMENT (P. 33)
(i) THAT the Enforcement Agreement between the City of Vernon and Sleeman Breweries Ltd. be extended to June 30, 2008, to allow for further modifications to the facilities and operation of the Okanagan Springs Brewery;

Surcharge for High Strength Wastes (From bylaw 3909) Increases to 1.19 per KG in March 2007 (?)
$0.885 per kg of Biochemical Oxygen Demand in excess of the limits contained in the Sanitary Sewer Use Bylaw discharged to the City of Vernon sanitary sewer system.
$0.885 per kg of Total Suspended Solids in excess of the limits contained in the Sanitary Sewer Use Bylaw discharged to the City of Vernon sanitary sewer system