When Fred Doerksen heard about a plan to spread biosolids from the city's sewage treatment plant on a tree farm in Red Rock, he thought he'd better let residents there know what was found when he sent samples of the material from a site next to his home to a lab in Vancouver.
As it turns out, the amount of pathogens and heavy metals, like copper, zinc and chromium, found in the substance were within provincially-mandated limits, but the numbers still left Doerksen with cause for concern.
"It probably scared the hell out of me," said Doerksen. "It's not only the metals...but it was all of the other things that were in there, like the chemicals.
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