Woodbridge residents skeptical of Environment Ministry site cleanup report

Feb. 7, 2017
Yorkregion.com
By Steve Somerville

Vaughan MPP Steven Del Duca hosted a heated public meeting at Father Ermanno Bulfon Community Centre in Woodbridge Feb. 6.

The subject was the clean up of a former illegal dumpsite at 5550 Langstaff Rd., a site a developer wants to build homes on.

Del Duca, along with Celeste Dugas, with the Ministry of the Environment central office and Andrea Brown, an engineer at the same office, presented a report from the ministry that states the site is now clean.

Residents, who have lived beside a mountain of contaminated soil for more than a decade, are skeptical and challenged them, citing a report on soil quality results from testing done around their neighbourhood.

They say their report did not match the ministry's.