Re: “Odours prompt CRD to suspend contract with compost facility,” Aug. 2.
Almost daily, we read about the problems associated with the new sewage treatment plant. The Capital Regional District appears to be stumbling from one crisis to another.
Now we learn the CRD has made no provisions in regard to the green garbage generated from the kitchen scraps program.
The only licensed composting facility in the capital region has received notices of suspension until improvements are made. The industrial commercial facility in question is located on Agricultural Land Reserve lands, not in an industrial area. The CRD has restricted its search for a site for the sewage-treatment plant outside the ALR.
Why the contradiction? The private commercial composting facility is located on a farm and assumed to be part of the normal farm operation and thus not subject to tax .
The CRD needs to explain why it is leaving municipal composting to the private sector and where all the green garbage will be processed, once the kitchen scraps program is fully implemented.
Carl Eriksen
Central Saanich
