B.C. company issued maximum $150,000 fine by Ministry of Environment for operating without permit

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A beleaguered company in Port Coquitlam has been hit with a $150,000 fine by the province for environmental infractions.

Unlabeled drums being stored outside at the Kingsway Avenue facility in standing water with no secondary containment. Ministry of Environment photo from Dec. 7, 2023 inspection.

The company allows hydrovac trucks to dump construction slurry – a mix of water and waste material left over from excavations – into settling pits at the property. Following the December inspection, the ministry slapped the company with a pollution abatement order. In its response to the fine notice in July 2024, Ground X disagreed with the ministry’s description of the facility as a “waste disposal facility,” instead calling it a transfer facility for re-use materials, asserting its activities do not require a waste-discharge permit.

The company disputes the facility is the source of any contamination into the northern ditch, stating the area’s groundwater management is interconnected, which feeds untreated wastewater from other sources into the river. They also note the sampled effluent contains contact water from the piles of solid hydrovac waste, soil, concrete, asphalt, and compost at the facility.

In July 2024, a B.C. Supreme Court judge temporarily barred Ground X from depositing and removing soil and hydrovac waste, altering the land and operating on the site without a business licence.

 

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