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The soil here is genuinely different from most of Ottawa: Stittsville sits on rockier, till-and-bedrock-influenced ground rather than the deep Leda clay found in Orléans, Barrhaven or Kanata, so the dominant risk leans toward differential settlement over uneven bedrock depth, not clay heave. There's even a real east-west split within the community itself — the west side, along a relict Champlain Sea beach, has sandy soil that drains slowly, while the clay-and-till soil west of Westridge Drive dries out and shrinks each summer.

Old Stittsville's 1870s–80s brick and stone buildings around Main Street need lime-based mortar for repointing, not modern Portland cement, which is a different job entirely from the terraced, graded lots in Blackstone and Fernbank, where engineered retaining walls and walkout basements are now standard and need to be built — and later repaired — with real drainage behind them. Properties near Poole Creek fall under the Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority rather than the Rideau Valley authority that covers most of Ottawa, which matters for permitting on anything near the creek corridor.

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