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City may turn to courts to answer biosolids opposition

City Hall is evaluating legal options after about a half dozen Salmon Valley residents turned back a truck carrying biosolids destined for farmland in the area, operations superintendent Bill Gaal said Monday.

City Hall is evaluating legal options after about a half dozen Salmon Valley residents turned back a truck carrying biosolids destined for farmland in the area, operations superintendent Bill Gaal said Monday.

The residents had set up a blockade on Wright Creek Road, just off Highway 97 North and just south of Salmon Valley, claiming the material poses an environmental hazard.

"Trying to be good neighbours and good corporate citizens, we didn't push the issue on Friday," Gaal said of the decision to turn the truck around. "But that doesn't mean we have necessarily lost our resolve."

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