Minimal impact to operations after expansion of pesticide ban

Dec 16, 2015 | 3:27 PM

KAMLOOPS — The city’s Parks and Recreation Department is confident there will be minimal impact to operations after council expanded its pesticide ban to include municipal land.

At Tuesdays council meeting 30-thousand extra dollars was approved for the parks department so that staff can maintain standards by using alternative options to cosmetic pesticides.

Shawn Cook is the city’s Parks Operation Supervisor. He says “for us in our city’s perspective in the parks department, we’re going to use alternative pesticides and more hand removal for weeds in our shrubs and landscape areas. It will have some effect for us in operations and council agree upon a minimal increase in operations to keep up our standards”.