Environmental Monitoring

The Lambton Facility conducts an extensive series of environmental tests and monitoring activities to ensure that the needs of waste generators are met in a manner that protects the environment and the health of employees, neighbours and the surrounding community.

Specifically, our tests include the following:

• Pre-acceptance sampling and analysis of each load of waste
• Employee health and workplace monitoring
• General air quality monitoring
• Sampling and testing of plants, grasses, crops, shrubs and trees within 1.5 km (1 mile) of the site (a similar phytotoxicology test is conducted by the Ministry of the Environment)
• Continuous monitoring of incinerator stack emissions
• Compliance testing
• Pre-approval health risk analysis of landfill and incineration systems
• Surface, near-surface and groundwater quality testing

In addition, the site's waste receiving and processing records, as well as data from continuous monitoring gauges, are filed annually with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and made available to the public upon request. Copies of these records are sent to the St. Clair Township local government and to Lambton's Community Advisory and Liaison Committee, which is comprised of neighbours, representatives from St. Clair Township and the Ministry of the Environment.