MERRITT – Another truck hauling biosolids has turned back at a blockade on Highway 8 where frustrated protesters say they don’t want the sewage waste from the Okanagan brought into the Nicola Valley. The Regional District of the Central Okanagan (RDCO) says the truck voluntarily turned back and did not deliver its load to a composting facility in a rural area west of Merritt.
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Protestors say they are angry there was no public consultation on the matter before a deal was made.
“In light of the current situation, the regional district will temporarily send biosolids from its waste water treatment facility to an approved, active land application site with its previous supplier in the rural area outside of Clinton,” says Communications Officer for the RDCO, Bruce Smith.
Smith says the regional district is one of the suppliers to the composting facility west of Merritt, which he says is an approved BioCentral facility.
The RDCO has signed a five year deal to ship sewage treatment biosolids from communities like West Kelowna and Peachland to the Nicola Valley.
~ With files from Kimberly Davidson
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