XS SOIL SOLUTIONS INC.

Your trusted partner in soil management strategies.

XS SOIL

SOLUTIONS

We are a leading environmental consulting group focused on providing soil solutions


Leaders in Excess Soil Management

Armed with years of experience, we create efficient, cost-effective soil management plans for our clients. We provide expert strategies in accordance with the new Excess Soil Regulations, to help you save on project cost and schedule.

  • Who Benefits From our Services?

    We primarily provides environmental consulting services to anyone excavating and/or moving soil, including excavation and construction companies, developers, contractors, municipalities, and property owners.  

  • Why Is Soil Management Important?

    Having a formal strategy in place will promote efficiency  onsite. Strategies regarding the receiving, storing, and disposing of excess soil -- created with specialized knowledge of the new regulations -- will save both time and money while keeping you within compliance.

  • Are You Excavating/Removing Soil Off-Site?

    We can develop and implement soil sampling plans, confirm soil quality, help to obtain multiple receiving sites for your project, all while mitigating project costs and schedule delays.

  • Trying To Reuse Soil On-Site?

    With the team at XS Soil, we can develop unique initiatives to help ensure your project removes the minimum applicable volume of soil offsite, and save as much as possible on disposal costs.

  • Are You Receiving Excess Soil?

    XS Soil can help you obtain all the required permits, expand on your limits of acceptable quantity and liason with potential source sites to provide excess soil for disposal at your site. 

  • Need Excess Soil Troubleshooting?

    Should you find yourself without an appropriate dump/receiving site, paying too much for disposal costs, needing soil storage, or backfill material. If you have regulations-related questions, or if you are in need of QP expertise on soil management strategies, schedule a no obligation consultation today. 

Leaders in Excess Soil Management

Armed with years of experience, we help create efficient, cost reducing strategies for our clients

  • Who Benefits From our Services?

    We primarily provides environmental consulting services to anyone excavating and/or moving soil, including excavation and construction companies, developers, contractors, municipalities, and property owners.  

  • Why Is Soil Management Important?

    Having a formal strategy in place will promote efficiency  onsite. Strategies regarding the receiving, storing, and disposing of excess soil -- created with specialized knowledge of the new regulations -- will save both time and money while keeping you within compliance.

  • Are You Excavating/Removing Soil Off-Site?

    We can develop and implement soil sampling plans, confirm soil quality, help to obtain multiple receiving sites for your project, all while mitigating project costs and schedule delays.

  • Trying To Reuse Soil On-Site?

    With the team at XS Soil, we can develop unique initiatives to help ensure your project removes the minimum applicable volume of soil offsite, and save as much as possible on disposal costs.

  • Are You Receiving Excess Soil?

    XS Soil can help you obtain all the required permits, expand on your limits of acceptable quantity and liason with potential source sites to provide excess soil for disposal at your site. 

  • Need Excess Soil Troubleshooting?

    Should you find yourself without an appropriate dump/receiving site, paying too much for disposal costs, needing soil storage, or backfill material. If you have regulations-related questions, or if you are in need of QP expertise on soil management strategies, schedule a no obligation consultation today. 

Onsite and Excess Soil Regulations (O.Reg. 406/19), Explained and Simplified

The province of Ontario estimates that 25 million cubic meters of excess soil is excavated on an annual basis. While most of this soil is able to be reused safely, the soil can occasionally contain contaminants, which pollute surface water quality as well as the ground itself. Due to these concerns, new rules and regulations are being implemented beginning 2021 and will be phased in until 2025.

What's Changing?

Reuse Rules

As of January 1, 2021

New rules regulating how excess soil is to be handled and potentially reused will be implemented. Waste designation is also clarified

Testing, Tracking, Registration

As of January 1, 2022

New rules will be taking effect requiring specific testing and tracking to be performed on soil before it leaves site. The degree and depth of tracking will be dependent on the type and size of job. Online registration for the larger projects will be required.

Reducing Waste Soil at Reuse Sites

More regulations will be in effect, aimed at reducing the amount of waste soil that large reuse sites are holding. Soil sampling plans, along with soil characterization reports will be more important than ever.

Landfilling Soil Restrictions

As of January 1. 2025

There will be restrictions on depositing clean soil at landfill sites, unless the soil is needed for cover or other beneficial functions.

Who We Help

Soil Management Requirements

Assessment of Past Uses

A process to identify areas of potential environmental concern, and to determine the likelihood that one or more contaminants have entered the soil.

An overarching work plan describing how excess soil will be tested, stockpiled, handled, transported and managed on the project.

A plan that outlines a sampling program to be conducted in the field, in compliance with O.Reg 406/19.

A soil report developed to outline the quality of soil onsite, and used to gain acceptance for disposal at reuse sites.

A report required to outline all the potential receiving sites the project will utilize throughout the duration of excavation.

For receiving sites accepting over 10,000 m3, this plan will outline the overall operations of your site and procedures for accepting excess soil.

The new regulations will require every soil truck leaving site to be tracked with a paper or electronic ticket. XS Soil can help track your soil material more effectively while saving valuable resource time from your team onsite.

If you are in need of receiving sites, XS Soil has access to a number of reuse sites and waste sites within the GTA and can negotiate favourable disposal rates on your behalf.

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