J.W. Seward Enterprises is taking the first steps necessary for a new waste processing site in St. Clair Township.
The proposed facility on Courtright Line would receive 25.5 tonnes of non-hazardous waste soils daily, to a maximum 6,300 tonnes per year.
St. Clair Township Mayor Steve Arnold says a public comment period ends October 28. The township lost an earlier appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board.
"Part of the negotiated settlement was that the neighbours would have a chance to take part in the site plan process," says Arnold. "As he moves forward with his applications, that hurdle has to be completed in his application to the Ministry and then it will come back and the site plan process will continue with direct involvement from some of the neighbours."
Arnold says the land is already zoned heavy industrial.
The facility will receive drilling mud and de-watering for recycling.
The site was once earmarked for a new Shell Refinery that never proceeded.