Under Ontario’s Excess Soil Regulation, project leaders, owners, site operators, and authorized persons are required to file notices for certain project areas, reuse sites, and residential development soil depot sites where excess soil is generated, transported, temporarily placed, or deposited.
Notices must be filed through RPRA’s Excess Soil Registry. The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks is responsible for conducting compliance and enforcement activities for the program.
RPRA publishes reported data annually. Published reports do not contain commercially sensitive information or personal information.
What data is posted
Excess soil datasets contain the following information from notices filed through the registry:
- Notice ID: A nine-digit alpha-numeric number associated with the registered project.
- Project area notice: A notice is a notice filed in the registry for a project that generates excess soil from a single property or a group of properties.
- Residential development soil depot (RDSD) notice: A notice is a notice filed in the registry for a temporary soil bank storage generated from residential development projects operated for the purpose of managing excess soil that will ultimately be transported to a reuse site.
- Reuse site notice: A notice filed in the registry for a site at which excess soil is received and used for an identifiable beneficial purpose.
- Destination site: A list of destination sites (Class 1 or Class 2 soil management site, landfill/dump, or local waste transfer facility) with their identification number, and the name assigned to the site receiving excess soil. This list shows destination sites according to notice filings created in the registry between the assigned cutoff dates corresponding to the filing created date.
- Note: Due to a system limitation, the datasets do not contain addresses of destination sites or volumes of excess soil transferred to destination sites recorded in project area notices. RPRA is working to resolve this and publish complete destination site data as part of the downloadable datasets. Destination site data is available on the public portal within individual project area notices.
- Project area property: A property within the project area that generates excess soil (Note: Project areas can include more than one project area property).
