File #: 23-052    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Action Report Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 1/5/2023 In control: Environmental Services Committee
On agenda: 1/18/2023 Final action:
Title: Biosolids Short-term Contingency Beneficial Use Plan
Attachments: 1. Staff Report: Biosolids Short-term Contingency Beneficial Use Plan, 2. Appendix A: Letter to Minister Heyman - December 16, 2022, 3. Appendix B: Hugh Stephens – Delegation on Biosolids – December 16, 2022, 4. Appendix C: Summary of Biosolids Production and End Use – 2022, 5. Supplemental: Biosolids Land Application Ban History

Title

Biosolids Short-term Contingency Beneficial Use Plan

 

Recommendation

[At the January 18, 2023 Environmental Services Committee meeting, the below staff report recommendation was discussed and DEFEATED.

 

That the Environmental Services Committee recommends to the Capital Regional District Board:

1.                     That the Capital Regional District (CRD) Board amend its policy to allow non-agricultural land application of biosolids as a short-term contingency alternative; and

2.                     That staff be directed to update the CRD’s short-term biosolids contingency plan correspondingly.

(WP - Colwood, Esquimalt, Langford, Oak Bay, Saanich, Victoria, View Royal)]

[Following the vote on the DEFEATED motion, the below motion arising was passed:]

That the Environmental Services Committee recommends to the Capital Regional District Board:
Direct staff to look at alternative options and maintain the status quo for now.
(NWA)