Dirty demolition fill illegally dumped on Steeles: The Fixer

The wise guy who illegally dumped truckloads of dirt along a busy stretch of Steeles Ave. W. has more nerve than a toothache.

Theres no other explanation for a half-dozen large piles on the north side of Steeles, between Yonge and Bathurst Sts., as unlikely and outrageous as it may seem.

We got an email from Ian Serota outlining his frustration over the dirt piles on the boulevard in front of his condo building at 520 Steeles, west of Palm Gate Blvd.

Its been there for seven months, but the City of Vaughan and City of Toronto will neither help remove it or do anything to get it removed, said Serota, whos president of the condo board.

They keep blaming it on not being able to find a work order, he said, adding, people are pretty upset. It is something I want to have some sort of answer to before my annual general meeting in mid-January.

Serota told us by phone that part of the curb lane on westbound Steeles was closed for road work last spring, around the same time the dirt appeared. He figured one had to do with the other.

But when he contacted Toronto and Vaughan, they knew nothing about any work that might have produced the dirt, he said, and showed no interest.

We went there and soon figured out it has nothing to do with road work, and why no work orders can be found; its dirty fill from a demolition job that was illegally dumped.

The soil is riddled with bricks and broken foundation concrete, not what youd find in dirt dug out of the road or a boulevard. But its standard stuff that must be cleaned up at a demolition site before construction begins.

Instead of paying tipping fees to properly dispose of it, whoever trucked it out of the site dumped it on the boulevard on Steeles and kept coming back with more.

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Dirty demolition fill illegally dumped on Steeles: The Fixer