Welcome to the Surrendered Sites Reporting and Mapping Tool. This application will allow for easy access to geographic information and the end use of former aggregate licences and permits across the province while maintaining landowner privacy.

One of the main purposes of the Trust is education, training, publishing and dissemination of the information on aggregate management. The Surrendered Sites Reporting and Mapping Tool will bridge communication and informational gaps between the aggregate industry and the public by communicating the end use/ rehabilitation of pits and quarries across Ontario. Specific information will be provided on a site-by-site basis detailing the surrendered licence or permit number, the date surrendered, the status, operation type, licenced/ permitted area, locational information, current and surrounding land uses as well as a photographic record. The Surrendered Sites Reporting and Mapping Tool will provide a more complete understanding of the end-use of former pits and quarries and has potential to be used to support research initiatives and as an educational tool.

It should be understood that there might be gaps in this data as information is retired according to retention schedules and TOARC has done its best to find and combine data from multiple sources. It should be recognized that the Aggregate Resources Act was enacted in 1990 as amended from the Pits and Quarries Control Act (1971), consequently, this database covers a large temporal scale where standards, policy, procedures and regulations have changed. The user should also recognize that the information in this database on current and surrounding land usage is only reflective of the land usage on the date of the TOARC visit. That is, the land-use may have changed since the Surrender date as the decision of the land post surrender are not subject to the ARA and are a decision of the landowner.

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