How can I find recorded pits, quarries and petroleum wells near a Quinte West home?

The Province's Find Pits and Quarries map shows the licences, aggregate permits and wayside permits under the Aggregate Resources Act, and can count the sites near a point you choose. For a Quinte West home the useful number is the distance to the nearest licensed site. The Province says a site may not appear if it is on private land in a part of Ontario not regulated under the Act, and that a licensed site may not be extracting if there is no demand for its aggregate.

The map covers aggregate pits and quarries, that is sand, gravel and bedrock; it is not a map of mines. The petroleum wells dataset records wells drilled for oil or gas, for salt, or for storing hydrocarbons underground, across Ontario. Both are records of what was licensed or drilled, not a history of every use of a piece of land: a blank result is not proof that a Quinte West lot was never a pit, a dump or a factory.

• Find Pits and Quarries: the Province's map of aggregate licences and permits
• Petroleum wells dataset: well locations, on the Ontario Data Catalogue

Past land use nearby runs for any Ontario address. The free check measures the distance to the nearest mapped aggregate site and petroleum well on the spot. The full report adds waste management sites and federal contaminated sites to the same group. None of it is a soil test or an environmental site assessment.

Free check: pick “Past land use nearby” See the sample report