A private parking lot has once again been used as a dumping ground for snow.

Gino Riccio owns a business on Dufferin Avenue with an adjacent lot. He said on Tuesday morning he arrived to find part of his snow pile looking remarkably brown.

“It looks like it came off the street, and when I came and I checked the lot, we hadn't cleaned our lot yet; so where did it come from?” said Riccio.

He checked his surveillance video, which showed a front end loader dumping snow onto his lot around 2:15 a.m. on Feb. 9.

Riccio said he’s sure the snow came from a crew hired by the city.

“There was about five or six graters that came down Dufferin and then, shortly after, a couple of front end loaders. One of them picked up the load and just dumped it on here,” said Riccio.

“(It’s) not much snow, but what are they thinking?”

This isn’t the first time the small business owner has come across the problem.

In February 2014, Riccio's cameras caught city crews dumping six loads on top of his paid-for parking spots.

At the time, the city said it believed the incident was an isolated incident.

It looked into the situation, and within days of the story being aired on CTV News, city crews had cleared the private parking lot outside Riccio’s business.

“They went up and beyond. They were perfect,” Riccio told CTV News on Feb. 26, 2014.

Now, almost two years later, Riccio said he’s surprised to see someone dump snow on his lot again.

“(It’s) just a little disturbing that this would happen again especially after what happened the last time,” said Riccio.

In an email statement sent to CTV News on Wednesday, the city said it is "not able to confirm at this time if this was a city contractor, but we are continuing to investigate.”

Riccio said he didn't phone the city this time because they didn't do anything last time until the news story aired.

“I haven’t contacted them. I didn't want to go through 311 and get the grief, more or less, 'we'll get you back in five days',” said Riccio.

The business owner also wonders if he is the only one.

"It's just one load, but if they're doing it here, where else are they doing it?" he said.

The city said it takes incidents like this very seriously and officials are investigating the matter.

“Once the investigation is completed, it will be determined if any contractor penalties are warranted. Penalties can be applied to equipment that the city hires for snow removal if necessary under the contract,” said Lisa Fraser with the City of Winnipeg.

The city said the contractor involved in the 2014 incident was penalized and disciplined.