Rehabilitating Ontario's Pits & Quarries

Each Year: Amount Excavated but Not Rehabilitated

Ontario law requires progressive rehabililation in aggregate pits. What is happening? Each year in Ontario, for every two hectares excavated, less than one is rehabilitated. In the decade 1992-2001, roughly the area of 10,000 football fields (5,948 hectares) have been excavated but not rehabilitated.

This can be seen in the following chart, which shows the annual disturbed (newly excavated) but not rehabilitated area. The increasingly long bars show the amount of land that has been stripped but not rehabilitated. These statistics indicate that the law is routinely ignored.

Cumulative Area Disturbed But Not Rehabilitated Since 1992