Officers from the Lanark County Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) charged 17 people in a response to continuous incidents of trespass at the Tatlock Quarry, in the Township of Lanark Highlands.
People are trespassing at the quarry to swim and numbers have increased due to use of social media.
The OPP stress that while charges were laid under the Provincial Trespass to Property Act because people were entering onto, and using, private property without authority or permission, it is simply not safe to be in the excavation area and the waters.
