There are concerns about what’s in the ground along McGill Road in Kamloops, which is a former landfill site.

A councillor voiced concerns about “non-compliance,” potential impact to water and a suggestion from the Ministry of Environment to do remediation in that area.

That was information leaked at council yesterday, related to a recent in-camera meeting.

During that discussion, city staff were asked how a road project is able to go ahead next month, despite those concerns.

“The design and the geotechnical investigations we’ve done so far don’t actually impact any of the actual landfill site. We’re above that as far as elevation in the ground, and it doesn’t actually impact any of the leachate. The developer and the engineer haven’t flagged that as a concern necessarily, because it doesn’t necessarily impact that infrastructure. But it’s something we can follow up on,” utility engineer Liam Baker says.

A 250-metre stretch of McGill Road will be torn up next month to allow for infrastructure work underground, before it is repaved.

There was concern as well at the council table, relating to leachate underground that, “it could eventually come back and impact everybody.”

The conversation ended abruptly after that, when it was pointed out by another councillor that this was a “closed” item.