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CREC: Landfill puts water supply at risk KRISTEN DOUGLAS CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
Members of a local environmental group are raising the alarm with the city over a proposed soil remediation facility that they say threatens the city’s drinking water. The committee’s concerns stem from an application from Upland Excavating to the province to expand its operations and accept non-hazardous contaminated soil at a landfill within the city’s watershed. Upland has submitted a waste discharge application to the Ministry of Environment for an Operational Certificate to accommodate a landfill on Upland-owned lands at 7295 Gold River Highway that would treat and deposit up to 500,000 cubic metres of non-hazardous solid waste, such as construction, demolition and land-clearing materials, including asbestos. At Monday’s council meeting, representatives from Upland presented their business case to city council and a packed public gallery. Mark Stuart, son of Upland founder George Stuart, said the company is using the landfill as an opportunity to provide steady employment for more local people. “The new venture would probably employ at least six people full-time and at times when various projects are going, 25 to 50 people part-time. We’re talking high-level, industrial income jobs,” Stuart said. “There’s an exodus of high-paying jobs in the Campbell River area right now and it’s a good opportunity to shore it up.” But members of the Campbell River Environmental Committee (CREC) are concerned about the
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Members of the Campbell River Environmental Council (from left), John Lewis, Leona Adams and Dietmar Setzer, are concerned about a proposal to place contaminated waste in a pit near Rico Lake (pictured) that they say could connect with Campbell River’s drinking water supply and contaminate it.
proposed landfill’s proximity to Rico Lake and McIvor Lake, which is connected to the city’s drinking water system. Leona Adams, on behalf of the Environmental Committee, wrote
a letter to council outlining the group’s concerns. “The proposed waste landfill site straddles a large aquifer, which is hydraulically connected with Rico Lake and McIvor Lake,” Adams
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wrote. “There is a private drinking water well connected to the aquifer and therefore the proposal is in non-compliance with the BC Contaminated Sites Regulation TG6 for a landfill.”
Adams added that Rico Lake is only located 10 metres west of the proposed landfill site, which she said is substantially less than the 100metre separation distance mandated
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