City of Kamloops searching for long-term solution to biosolids
KAMLOOPS — Last Friday it was announced the city had reached an agreement with Arrow Transport and the Little Shuswap Lake Indian Band (LSLIB) on a short-term solution to the management of biosolids produced in Kamloops.
The two-year contract is worth nearly $4.5 million dollars and will involve trucking the processed biosolids to a composting facility on the Little Shuswap Lake Indian Band lands. Jen Fretz, Civic Operations Director with the City of Kamloops, says the contract will not only allow the city to deal with the over 12-and-a-half thousand tonnes of new biosolids we’re producing each year, but it will also deal with the more than 23,000 tonnes of biosolids currently stockpiled.
“The community was really concerned about direct land application so one of the things we really tried to do with this contract is… really try to understand what possibilities are out there. What can we do with biosolids beyond direct land application?” Fretz told CFJC Today. “We’re happy to be able to say that we’re going to be compositing biosolids and that finished compost will have no restrictions and can be used anywhere.”