From Global News.

A Shuswap, B.C., compost facility that has grown well beyond its initially approved site will have to reduce its foot print to meet compliance.

As per staff recommendation, the Columbia Shuswap Regional District (CSRD) board has voted against the passing of first reading, which would have allowed the Spa Hills Compost Facility to continue operating on a much larger scale but within the bylaw regulations.

The facility south of Salmon Arm was permitted to operate in an area not exceeding 500 square metres when it opened in 2014.

However, the area used for primary composting has grown to 40 times that size over the years and without any approvals.

The unapproved growth has come with problems for area residents as animal parts are among the items composted on site.

“All the meat falling in my yard. Birds would be dropping it. My dogs would get it. My horses eat in the pasture that the meat is dropped in and some of this is euthanized horses so it worries me,” neighbour Deneen Tomlinson told Global News.

Global’s Klaudia Van Emmerik reports.

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