In 2012 my wife 2 children and her parents decided to buy a dream place for our family in Saanich BC (A rural agricultural area of Victoria). With an older house and old out buildings we started to remodel the run down location. We saved up for 2 years and planned to build a garage/workshop. After getting all the proper building permits we dug down to pour the footings and unearthed the largest residentially zoned contaminated site in history. ( http://www.saanichnews.com/news/394037831.html Sitting on the corner of our zoned (A1) property at 240 Goward Rd. is a 1000-tonne (80+ dump truck loads) mound of contaminated soil stock piled there by an environmental waste management company from the building site. The soil is so contaminated, the Island-based waste management company won’t take it, and it will now sit between tarps until we can eventually treat it or barge it off the Island.Since we discovered the oil last year, the cost to deal with it has grown to $100,000.00. This has used up most of our building budget and we do not have any more equity. Unfortunately, estimates of total remediation costs exceed $250,000.00 (and that is if no further contamination is found anywhere on the 5 acre property).It appears that, after some research, we have discovered oil was dumped on the property prior to our ownership for over 10 years, which was not disclosed to us. At this point we have begun lawsuits to try and make the responsible parties fund the project, but it could take multiple years in court. In the mean time, there's an environmental catastrophe remaining in Saanich.After repeated tries, the District of Saanich is unwilling/unable to help my family in our desperate time of need. Surrounded by contaminated soil, financially unable to dispose of it and worried that the contamination will leach into the neighboring Underwood Creek Sensitive Native Wetland Vegetation, we are asking for your help. If you cannot help via donation, please take a couple minutes to sign our petition for the District of Saanich to help us clean up. https://www.change.org/p/district-of-saanich-i-want-saanich-to-clean-up-the-massive-oil-spill-at-240-goward-immediately?recruiter=677223926&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink Excess gofundme proceeds will be donated to the Peninsula Streams Society (Conserving the water sheds of the Saanich peninsula).We appreciate your support.