Unsafe soil is not…

Unsafe soil is not compatible with the protective nature of the greenbelt plans. Municipal and provincial regulation and enforcement may develop in the future to better control these soil dumps, but sampling and testing cannot guarantee that all the dumped soil is completely safe. This leads to the conclusion that the greenbelt plans require special prohibitions against the dumping of soil, whether it is by commercial fill operations, site alterations, farm practices, etc. Importation of soil will have contamination, it is just a matter of time before excesses of toxic substances are found.

Little to no oversight of the fill being deposited puts groundwater, residents and species at risk. The MNR does not provide enough engineering oversight and force of remediation at pits., The Province of Ontario is taking a huge risk by enabling large scale fill operations. With the fill comes dust, noise, vibrations, unsafe dump trucks racing up and down our roads and deaths due to collisions.

Unsafe soil is not compatible with the protective nature of the greenbelt plans. Municipal and provincial regulation and enforcement aren't in place to control these soil dumps, but sampling and testing cannot guarantee that all the dumped soil is completely safe. This leads to the conclusion that the greenbelt plans require special prohibitions against the dumping of soil, whether it is by commercial fill operations, site alterations, farm practices, etc. The precautionary principle must be applied to protect the soil and the water, and the businesses, ecosystems, and people that rely on them

Where the rehabilitation of a gravel pit or quarry is governed by the Aggregate Resources Act and requires large scale soil importation for rehabilitation, and that pit or quarry is within an area where LSFPs is otherwise prohibited, the imported soil shall be Table 1 as defined by Soil, Ground Water and Sediment Standards for Use Under Part XV.1 of the Environmental Protection Act and shall be limited to the minimum amount required for rehabilitation.