Mincing Words

Today's Morning Star story was headed "Warren Road limitations sought".

It began:

"Some Lavington residents want to close down their road to the public."
Hogwash!


The four private residences on Warren Road https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Warren+Rd,+Coldstream,+BC&hl=en&ll=50.233673,-119.133124&spn=0.006931,0.021136&sll=54.112352,-126.555646&sspn=13.030519,43.286133&oq=Warren+Road&t=h&hnear=Warren+Rd,+Coldstream,+North+Okanagan,+British+Columbia&z=16
aren't seeking to close their narrow road to the public.

They are concerned about the narrow road being used by tanker trucks to access a cow pasture in the Keefer Gulch area for the disposal of biosolids and waste juice onto Coldstream Ranch lands from the Sun-Rype juice facility in Kelowna. 

Three thousand three hundred and seventy tanker truck runs to be specific.
Yup, 3,370 tankers.
Each year.

Those four residents have seen firsthand the destruction inflicted on Buchanan Road from more than a year of tanker truck traffic onto other acreages in the valley.  And even during spring thaw, not one Legal Axle Load Restriction sign was placed by the District of Coldstream anywhere on Buchanan Road.  None.  So the tanker rumbled along, fully laden, day after day, often two or three times a day.

Buchanan Road's condition is a result of the District of Coldstream not restricting axle limits during spring thaw.

Yet a few of these signs appeared...long after the fact.

The stuff inside the tanker trucks stinks to high heaven--personally experienced last year--as boom sprayers spread the black muck (that day on frozen, snow-covered fields) south of Buchanan Road.

Nobody's against the Coldstream Ranch fertilizing their fields.
Not at all.
But this stuff smells like, well, shit.
Yes it does.

Plus we know that it'll be residents--not Sun-Rype in Kelowna--who end up paying for the road reconstruction when premature failure occurs.

But Warren Road, in particular, is narrow and residents fear either the tankers or their own vehicle -- one or the other -- will have to back up if and when they meet.
With 3,370 tanker truck runs on Warren Road each year, that scenario will indeed exist.
Probably often.

https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Warren+Rd,+Coldstream,+BC&hl=en&ll=50.227936,-119.132137&spn=0.027729,0.084543&sll=54.112352,-126.555646&sspn=13.030519,43.286133&oq=Warren&t=h&hnear=Warren+Rd,+Coldstream,+North+Okanagan,+British+Columbia&z=14&layer=c&cbll=50.229837,-119.137295&panoid=o1Iv1X73mBUotQaz77ZUHA&cbp=12,0,,0,0

And what consideration has been given to the safety of children waiting at the roadside for the school bus?


The Coldstream Ranch has received Ministry of Environment approval to dump 3.9 million U.S. gallons of biosolid and 15.6 million gallons of waste juice each year.
  
"Obviously it's not built for that kind of traffic," said Councillor Kiss.

Missing entirely was Councillor Besso's concern on impact to water quality at Coldstream Creek, which is downslope from the application sites.  Coldstream Creek drains into Kalamalka Lake, the drinking water source for many of Vernon's residents.

Those four Warren Road residents aren't the only ones to raise a stink about the stink.
Properties adjacent to the Ogogrow facility have had their fill too.

Wonder if these signs will pop up everywhere:

"Maybe a photo of a nose?" offers Kia.

How about these two guys holding their noses?
Maybe a photo of Sun-Rype's owner, Jim Pattison.
Or former NDP's B.C. Premier, Glen Clark, a board member of Sun-Rype.

The latter has been know to mince words too.