GFL Environmental Services Inc. - Environmental Compliance Approval (waste)

This proposal is to amend Environmental Compliance Approval (ECA) No. 5064-C22RHJD for a Waste Disposal Site (transfer/processing) located at 150 Yates Avenue, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. This site is owned and will be operated by GFL Environmental Services Inc. (GFL), with headquarters located at 100 New Park Place, Suite 500, Vaughan, Ontario, L4K 0H9.

The function of this site is to receive, process and/or transfer Non-Hazardous waste, Liquid Industrial, Hazardous Waste, and non-hazardous contaminated excess soil, including liquid soil. GFL is requesting the ability to accept waste 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with a service area of Canada and the United States of America. Most activities are expected to take place during business days and business hours.

The site is requesting approval to receive 100,000 tonnes of non-hazardous contaminated soil, based on an annualized average receiving rate of 2,500 tonnes per day. The Site may receive up to 4,000 tonnes of soil per day for up to 10 consecutive days on no more than 90 days per year to allow for Emergency Response activities that may occur in northern Ontario. The maximum on-site storage capacity for non-hazardous impacted soils in storage awaiting treatment, soils in treatment, and soils in storage for the purpose of transfer, will not exceed 25,000 tonnes.

The site additional footprint will include a 1,486 cubic metres (200’ x 80’) fabric shelter building comprised of concrete reinforced containment walls, concrete reinforced slab, fabricated steel structure, with fabric enclosure used for the temporary storage of soil (storage, screening area and treatment area); and 1,115 square metres (200’ x 60’) tarped asphalted pad adjacent to the fabric shelter building used for the storage of soil (temporary storage area).