Veolia
Water Canada Inc. makes fertilizer pellets (sold as Nutri-Pel)
from secondary sewage sludge. It was fined $70,000 for letting some of them escape
into a creek.
During the winter, Nutri-Pel is stored in bags at several sites.
When these bags were being loaded, some pellets were spilled on a
flooded field near a creek. Some pellets soaked in the creek water,
and others became saturated from precipitation. Mitigating factors
were that there did not appear to be actual harm to creek
organisms, and the pellets are no longer stored at this site.
There had been two other incidents involving such pellets at
other sites. Nutri-Pel dust from loading and bagging the
product had been emitted off-site; Veolia complied with the MOE
Provincial Officer's request to stop loading operations for the
day. On another occasion, a neighbor complained about odour. Veolia
complied with a Provincial Officer Order to stop loading the
product at the site until an acceptable dust
