We, the Pefferlaw Area…

We, the Pefferlaw Area Ratepayers organization, thought that the provincial soil regulations of 2019 would significantly reduce the threat of contaminated soil dumped illegally in to the greenbelt and surrounding lands, but on Nov 3 the Ford government proposed to rescind a large part of it. Not only does contaminated soil threaten the groundwater and make the land unsuitable for other uses, even uncontaminated soil covers fertile farmland with infertile subsoil. It can alter the hydrology by changing the recharge. It changes the landform by filling ravines and wetlands and turning rolling hills into an empty flat expanse of weeds. Each year many hectares of greenbelt are affected.