Why this massive sandpit has neighbours 'pissed off'

This massive sandpit is located right in the middle of a quiet neighborhood in the Annapolis Valley, and it's giving people living right next door to it major headaches. Everybody is kind of pissed off. This 14-hectare sandpit in Colebrook is the result of a subdivision being developed. It's been around for months, but it's still months away from being done. Residents aren't opposed to new houses, but they say sand from these large piles is getting everywhere, including in their homes. Can't open our windows upstairs at all. The sand would come right in. Our front porch was full of sand. My wife had to clean it off two or three times. Nice warm days, opened our patio full, letting the breeze go through the house and not think anything of it until we came in for supper. And we could write our name on our kitchen table because it was that covered with sand. Around the same time, Alko Holland's family had to use their robotic pool cleaner again and again and again to help open it for the season. For 15 days, every few hours, I was pulling up a robot full of sand. Permits for subdivision developments are the responsibility of municipal governments. Permits for open pits are done by the province. Unless the pit is created by the development of a subdivision, then no permit is required, no matter how big the pit is. A spokesperson for Nova Scotia's Department of Environment and Climate Change says staff have visited this site several times and have found no compliance issues. The municipality of Kings County says there's nothing they can do either, but they believe the province should do more. There certainly should be. There's regulations and rules involved when you're right in the middle of a large-scale subdivision. Corkum says there is a two-year time limit for subdivisions to be developed, but there can be delays that make that go longer. There are no houses built, and it certainly doesn't look like it's going to happen in the near future. With how things look now, residents feel like they're going to have to continue dealing with sand everywhere for many more months. Josh Hoffman, CBC News, Cobra.