In January, the Environmental Appeal Board fined the company that owns Lake Okanagan Resort for repeatedly failing to achieve wastewater treatment and effluent disposal compliance.
And the government says the resort, which was mostly destroyed by wildfire last year, has yet to pay up.$47,870 for repeatedly failing to achieve wastewater treatment and effluent disposal compliance, aka sewage practices., said the fines to 1782 Holdings Ltd. were issued under B.C.’s Environmental Management Act.The decision also noted that 1782 Holdings purchased the resort in 2014, though sewage issues had been documented before the business changed owners.
Still, in the years that followed, the report said officials brought up the resort’s failing sewage system, but that nothing was really done to permanently remedy the issue.According to the report, the resort can discharge wastewater into the ground, but in 2013, the permit to do so was amended, and the business needed to decrease “the concentration of total nitrogen and phosphorus in the discharge wastewater.
The report also mentioned a broken pressurized sewer pipe, multiple requests to address the situation, the appellant’s attempt to blame delays on COVID-19, and the fact that the appellant didn’t dispute the contraventions but the fine amounts., those who bought in are in a difficult situation.Global News has reached out to Lake Okanagan Resort.The Ministry of Environment says it invoiced the company on Jan. 17, 2024, for $47,870, and that payment was due on Feb. 16, 2024.
“On May 22, 2024, it remained unpaid and was referred to collections,” the ministry said in an email to Global News on July 8. “The payment remains outstanding.”
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