A resort in Revelstoke, B.C., has been penalized more than $70,000 for failing to properly train staff and monitor sewage outflow into an area not far from a drinking well.

Glacier House Resort Ltd. — which operates a lodge, restaurant, pool and a number of cabins north of the city — was handed the penalties after inspectors with the Ministry of Environment and Parks found it did not have a sewage monitoring program or certified staff to manage its onsite sewage disposal system between 2022 and early 2025.

Treated sewage at the resort is normally disposed 70 metres from a well that acts as the facility’s source of drinking water, wrote director of the Environmental Management Act Jason Bourgeois in his decision.

The proximity of the facility to the well was found to increase the risk of

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