This consultation was open from:
December 8, 2025
to January 22, 2026
Decision summary
Approval is granted to operate a 2.35‑hectare facility in the City of Barrie, Ontario, for the receipt, storage, transfer, and processing of non‑hazardous waste, including dry excess soil, road sweepings, and liquid excess soil.
Location details
Site address
25 & 45 Middleton Court
Barrie,
ON
Canada
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View this location on a map opens link in a new windowProponent(s)
DS Soils Inc.
52 Fairway Court
Oro-Medonte,
ON
L0L 2L0
Canada
Decision details
Approval is granted to operate a 2.35‑hectare facility in the City of Barrie, Ontario, for the receipt, storage, transfer, and processing of non‑hazardous waste, including dry excess soil, road sweepings, and liquid excess soil.
This approval authorizes the following activities and conditions:
- All loading, unloading, storage, and processing of materials must be conducted within fully enclosed areas of the facility.
- The facility is permitted to receive liquid excess soil from hydrovac vehicles originating from multiple locations across Ontario.
- Treated decanted effluent may be reused on‑site for dust suppression and in hydrovacing operations, subject to compliance with the chemical quality testing requirements specified in the approval.
- Treated decanted effluent may be discharged to the City’s sewer system, contingent upon obtaining municipal approval.
- Prior to reuse or off‑site shipment, all processed soils must be tested to determine their appropriate reuse or disposal destination.
- The maximum quantity of waste received at the site shall not exceed 4,000 tonnes per day.
- Facility operations may occur continuously, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
The following conditions are imposed:
- Compliance with prescribed chemical quality standards for incoming dry excess soil;
- Chemical quality testing of processed soils prior to off‑site shipment for reuse;
- Chemical quality testing of treated decanted dewatering effluent prior to on‑site or off‑site reuse
Obtaining site‑specific air and odour approvals under Section 9 of the Environmental Protection Act (EPA), and approvals under Section 53 of the Ontario Water Resources Act (OWRA) for the management of contact and non‑contact stormwater
Effects of consultation
There was no comments received.
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54 Cedar Pointe Dr
Unit 1201
Barrie,
ON
L4N 5R7
Canada
135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
How to Appeal
This instrument decision can be appealed. You have 15 days from April 1, 2026 to begin the appeal process.
Carefully review the information below to learn more about the appeal process.
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Start the process to appeal
If you’re an Ontario resident, you can start the process to appeal this instrument decision.
First, you’ll need to seek leave (i.e. get permission) from the relevant appellate body to appeal the decision.
If the appellate body grants leave, the appeal itself will follow.
Seek leave to appeal
To seek leave to appeal, you need to do these three things:
- prepare your application
- provide notice to the minister
- mail your application to three parties
1. Prepare your application
You’ll need to prepare an application. You may wish to include the following things in your application:
- A document that includes:
- your name, phone number, fax number (if any), and/or email address
- the ERO number and ministry reference number (located on this page)
- a statement about whether you are a resident in Ontario
- your interest in the decision, and any facts you want taken into account in deciding whether you have an interest in the decision
- the parts of the instrument that you’re challenging
- whether the decision could result in significant harm to the environment
- the reason(s) why you believe that no reasonable person – having regard to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind – could have made the decision
- the grounds (facts) you’ll be using to appeal
- the outcome you’d like to see
- A copy of the instrument (approval, permit, order) that you you are seeking leave to appeal. You’ll find this in the decision notice on the Environmental Registry
- Copies of all supporting documents, facts and evidence that you’ll be using to appeal
What is considered
The appeal body will consider the following two questions in deciding whether to grant you leave to appeal:
- is there is good reason to believe that no reasonable person, with respect to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind, could have made the decision?
- could the decision you wish to appeal result in significant harm to the environment?
2. Provide your notice
You’ll need to provide notice to the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks that you’re seeking leave to appeal.
In your notice, please include a brief description of the:
- decision that you wish to appeal
- grounds for granting leave to appeal
You can provide notice by email at minister.mecp@ontario.ca or by mail at:
College Park 5th Floor, 777 Bay St.
Toronto, ON
M7A 2J3
3. Mail your application
You’ll need to mail your application that you prepared in step #1 to each of these three parties:
- appellate body
- issuing authority (the ministry official who issued the instrument)
- proponent (the company or individual to whom the instrument was issued)
DS Soils Inc.
52 Fairway Court
Oro-Medonte,
ON
L0L 2L0
Canada
Registrar, Ontario Land Tribunal
655 Bay Street, Suite 1500
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1E5
(416) 212-6349
(866) 448-2248
OLT.Registrar@ontario.ca
Include the following:
This is not legal advice. Please refer to the Environmental Bill of Rights for exact legal requirements. Consult a lawyer if you need help with the appeal process.
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Client Services and Permissions Branch
135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
Original proposal
Proposal details
This proposal is for an Environmental Compliance Approval (waste disposal site) for an enclosed non-hazardous materials transfer/processing facility. This facility is on a 2.35-hectare property located in the City of Barrie, ON.
The facility is located within a new industrial subdivision and is surrounded by industrial lands. The facility will receive, store, transfer and process non-hazardous materials including dry excess soil, road sweepings and liquid soil; all storage and processing of materials will be undertaken within enclosed areas at the facility.
The facility will receive liquid soil from hydrovac vehicles from multiple sites in Ontario; dry soil is generated by physical water separation. Separated water is proposed to be reused in hydrovac activities or where necessary, managed via the local sanitary sewer system. The facility will predominantly serve as a material recycling/reuse facility; all materials will be tested to determine the appropriate reuse/ disposal site for shipment from the facility.
Materials which meet applicable criteria for beneficial reuse will be transferred to excess soil reuse sites in accordance with the requirements of Ontario Regulation 406/19. Materials received at the facility that do not meet excess soil reuse criteria will be removed from the site and disposed of by licenced haulers. The maximum quantity of waste delivered to the site on any given day is 1,000 tonnes, and 365,000 tonnes annually.
Operations at the facility may occur 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year. The facility will receive materials from the Province of Ontario.
Supporting materials
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Get in touch with the office listed below to find out if materials are available.
135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
Comment
Commenting is now closed.
This consultation was open from December 8, 2025
to January 22, 2026
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135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto,
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M4V 1P5
Canada
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