Hello, The issue that we…

Hello,

The issue that we are facing as a municipality from Reg 406/19 is the lack of receiving sites. There is a lack of sites that are willing to accept materials that meet Table 3, 3.1., which many excess soils for road projects are being classified under. Further, SAR and EC sites are also very had to come by. The potential change to the Aggregate Resources Act will further create issues with sites that currently take some materials that are in exceedence of EC and SAR. Many of our projects create surplus material because of the physical nature of the soils being unsuitable for engineering applications (back fill), and cannot be reused as they are either too wet, or need to be processed in some way.

From the above, much of our excess soil that is Table 3.1 is having to be sent to Landfills/waste facilities because of this lack of local receiving sites. We cannot build berms to facilitate excess soils in the down town core of a City. Much of this material has to leave the site as it is unsuitable (physically) for reuse. Materials such as wet silts and shale compound this issue for us.

If a receiving site has the option to accept Table 1 or Table 3.1, they are going to accept the table 1 soils every time.

Further, we have requested clarification numerous times regarding topsoil and its classification in the Reg 406/19 when being imported from a soil distributor. Classifying this as excess soil is creating problems for municipalities that get most of their topsoil this way... very little topsoil comes from Quarries in our area.