Ellison, B.C. residents accuse nearby fruit-packing plant of dumping sewage
Global News
One resident says the foul stench has been lingering through the air for roughly a month now, but other residents say they’ve noticed it a lot longer.
Some residents of a rural community near Kelowna, B.C., say they’ve been dealing with an obnoxious odour and allege it may be coming from a nearby fruit-packing facility.
“It’s just awful,” explained Ellison resident Daniel Moser.
“I’ve seen it, I can smell it, and it’s awful. It has to be their sewage.”
Moser says the foul stench has been lingering through the air for roughly a month now, but other residents say they’ve noticed it a lot longer.
“It’s been a lot more noticeable over the last two to three weeks, but even last summer I could smell it,” says Ellison resident Jeff Bligh.
“I don’t know exactly what it is, but its not a great smell lets put it that way.”
However, one man believes he may have found the source of the problem. In a video posted to a Facebook group of area residents, it shows what he claims is “sewage” shooting out of a pipe and into a ditch along Old Vernon Road.
But he didn’t stop there. The man continues to search for more evidence, and came across a manhole on the company’s property, where it can be seen spewing what he alleges is more sewage.
