Kamloops city council will be asked next week to more than double tipping fees for sewage waste.

The civic operations committee is recommending those fees be raised from $20.31 per cubic metre to $50.00, as of Sept. 1.

“Also to raise the price of late tipping from $100 to $200 dollars. So this still needs to go to council, this is just done by the committee itself and we’re going to go ahead and make that recommendation that we go ahead and have that discussion at council,” councillor Dieter Dudy says, who is the chair of that committee.

“The reasoning behind it is we’re cheaper than pretty much any other place within the province, if not even beyond that. And we’re sick of people coming from as far as the coast and even Alberta to tip their sewage in Kamloops because of the fact that it’s more cost effective for them. The concern we have with that of course is we don’t know what we’re dealing with when they’re doing that tipping. So now what we’re going to do, in addition to raising those fees, is make sure that they come directly down to the sewage treatment plant and they can be inspected at that point, then determine whether or not they can dump their loads there.”

The city’s utility services manager Greg Wightman has said most neighboring sewage treatment plants have sewage tipping fees in and around $50 per cubic metre.