As B.C. tries to divert more waste from landfills, farmland has become an easy target.
At first, residents, who value their privacy and appreciate the difficulties presented by the rocky soil on Cultus Lake’s southern shore, turned a blind eye to the piles accumulating in their neighbour’s field. He told them he was trying to improve his land by applying compost.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.
Residents contacted the Agricultural Land Commission and the Ministry of Environment, but the trucks kept coming. The material was supposed to be Class-A compost, which means farmers can apply it to their fields to amend the soil with little oversight or regulation.Now, as Columbia Valley residents fight to have hundreds of truckloads of material removed from atop their aquifer, they are sounding the alarm over the lax laws and poor oversight that make farmland a target for Lower Mainland waste.
At the direction of the ministry, materials will be sampled and sent to an independent lab. “The organic matter is primarily Class-B compost, which poses a very low risk to aquifers.” Thorogood said the company is abiding by the stop-work order and has been trying to cover the piles since October, when the Ministry of Environment said the material needed to be blanketed with non-permeable covers to prevent runoff. While that work is ongoing, the site is in a “holding pattern”.
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