Written by Peter McIntyre Tuesday, 23 February 2010 11:16 107.5 KISSFM:
Tighter operating rules should make the bio-solids facility south of Vernon less of a problem, even though it's been expanded. The plant on Commonage Road, which turns sewage into gardening fertilizer, has led to numerous odour complaints. Councillor Bob Spiers says a draft operating protocol has been developed, and looks promising. "It will address all of the what ifs, and if something went wrong in the future, to make sure we never get back to the situation where we were over capacity 40 to 50 percent, that type of deal." Spiers says the plant should be back to full operation in August which he says is when the improvements should be noticed----or in this case, not noticed. "They won't be operating at the final levels until probably mid August or September and that will be when you can start judging whether all the improvements have occurred and are effective." Costs of the facility are shared by Kelowna (70 %) and Vernon (30%), based on the amount of waste product that comes in.
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