A maintenance company’s decision to apply 290 kilograms of Tide laundry detergent to remove moss from a condo rooftop in Abbotsford, B.C., will face another hearing after a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled an appeal board had unreasonably overturned a penalty to the company.
The case dates back to April 27, 2021, when B.C.’s environment ministry received a complaint from a strata resident that MKY Holdings had illegally used Tide powder laundry detergent to control moss on the 98-unit Sage Strata Complex.
The resident raised concerns the detergent had runoff into a nearby creek, according to an initial ruling from Michael Lapham, then administrator of the Integrated Pest Management
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