By Jennifer Smith - Vernon Morning Star Published: December 19, 2008 4:00 PM
Coldstream feels Vernon is dumping their poopy problems on them. The City of Vernon will be trucking three to four loads of sewer biosolids a week to the landfill. The material is generally taken to the Ogogrow fertilizer plant in the Commonage but the city is trying to reduce production there to get a handle on an odour problem. “All it is doing is moving the problem closer to Coldstream,” said Coun. Doug Dirk. A better solution, he says, is the fertilizer plant needs to be built with an increased capacity so it can handle the loads from Vernon and Kelowna (both of which own the facility). “I don’t think that plant has ever worked the way it was supposed to,” said Coun. Pat Cochrane, who is familiar with the situation as a former Vernon councillor.
Approval of dumping biosolids at the landfill is still needed from the Ministry of Environment, and the North Okanagan Regional District is insisting other alternatives to dumping be the material be researched. It was also suggested that since 70 per cent of the waste from the biosolids facility comes Kelowna, that they be the ones to take the sludge.
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