Hamilton has filed a $30-million legal claim blaming its own construction contractor in the event a judge finds any polluted dirt from a city project was dumped in a Mob-linked soil mountain on Highway 5.

The latest salvo in the blame game over Waterdown Garden Supplies comes as its neighbours in Troy form a group to “demand answers and action” from elected officials — and ideally, a cleanup of 24,000 truckloads of dirt they fear will pollute the water supply.

The rural property and its 10-metre-high dirt heaps have been stuck in a legal quagmire since the corporate landowners launched a $75-million lawsuit two years ago alleging city officials conspired with now-dead Mob boss Pat Musitano to allow illegal dumping without consent.

The city rejected those allegations and said a third-party probe found “no evidence” to back the conspiracy claims, which have not been tested in court.

In a new legal claim filed earlier this year, however, the city acknowledges 500 truckloads of fill excavated from a 2018 Dundas road project were delivered to the Waterdown Garden Supplies property “unbeknownst to the city.”

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