OSCWA has been involved with…

OSCWA has been involved with the MECP and other stakeholder organizations in promoting the environmentally responsible and beneficial reuse of excess soils in Ontario for over a decade. RCCAO appreciates the work that MECP has undertaken over the last several years to help limit the amount of healthy soil being sent to landfill and providing options for safe soil reuse.

OSWCA is supportive of the proposed risk-based approach including exempting low-risk projects from excess soil reuse planning requirements if excess soil is being removed from a project area at which the current or last property use was agricultural, residential, parkland or institutional. This approach will streamline the application of the excess soil regulation and ensure a more practical and focused regulatory implementation on higher-risk movement of soil.