Davnn Contracting of Kenaston pleaded guilty this year in Saskatoon Traffic Cour to illegal dumping and operating an illegal landfill.

The Government of Saskatchewan says there are rules in Saskatchewan on how to appropriately dispose of waste – failing to follow those rules can result in charges under The Environmental Management and Protection Act.

Davnn Contracting was fined $21,000 and order to clean the site up by December 31st this year. The fines will be directed to the provincial Impacted Sites Fund.

The investigation began in August 2022, when the Ministry of Environment received a report concerning the illegal disposal of demolition waste.

There was a joint investigation involving conservation officers with the Ministry of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety’s Provincial Protective Services Branch which confirmed that the Village of Young had hired Davnn Contracting to demolish six old houses and haul them to a gravel pit approximately 1.6 kilometres out of town. There, the waste was dumped into a hole and covered with debris and dirt.

The village was given two notices over the course of a year to voluntarily clean up the illegal disposal site. When that didn’t happen, charges were laid last November.