Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulations

Marginal note:Required information

• 18 (1) The owner or operator of a wastewater system must send to the authorization officer an identification report that contains the following information:

  • (a) the owner’s and the operator’s name, civic and postal addresses, telephone number and, if any, email address and fax number;

  • (b) the name, title, civic and postal addresses, telephone number and, if any, email address and fax number, of a contact person;

  • (c) if any, the wastewater system’s name and civic address;

  • (d) with respect to the wastewater system:

    • (i) a statement indicating whether it is an intermittent or continuous wastewater system,

    • (ii) for a continuous wastewater system, a statement indicating whether its hydraulic retention time is five days or more,

    • (iii) a statement indicating whether the system is owned or operated, or both, by one or several of the following:

      • (A) Her Majesty in right of Canada or another federal body,

      • (B) Her Majesty in right of a province or another provincial body,

      • (C) a municipality or another local authority,

      • (D) an Aboriginal organization, including an Indian, an Inuit or a Métis government or the council of the band, as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Indian Act, or

      • (E) an entity other than one referred to in clauses (A) to (D), and

    • (iv) the type of wastewater treatment, if any, including whether chlorine, or one of its compounds, is used, and a description of the type;

  • (e) the latitude and longitude of the final discharge point;

  • (f) for a point of entry in relation to the final discharge point,

    • (i) its latitude and longitude,

    • (ii) a description of the water frequented by fish into which effluent is deposited, including

      • (A) a description of its use, if any, and

      • (B) its name, if any, and the name, if any, of the body of water that includes that water, and

    • (iii) a statement as to whether the effluent is deposited in water frequented by fish via the final discharge point or from a place where it was deposited via the final discharge point;

  • (g) the number of overflow points for each of the combined sewers and sanitary sewers of the wastewater system and the latitude and longitude of each of those overflow points;

  • (h) for a point of entry in relation to each overflow point, a description of the water frequented by fish into which effluent is deposited, including

    • (i) a description of its use, if any, and

    • (ii) its name, if any, and the name, if any, of the body of water that includes that water; and

  • (i) for the calendar year before the calendar year in which the identification report is sent, the average daily volume, expressed in m³, of effluent deposited via the wastewater system’s final discharge point — calculated in accordance with subsection 7(1) or by using another method based on measurements or, if not so calculated, determined on the basis of the system’s average design rate of flow of influent — and a statement of the method of calculation or determination used and, if the method was another method of calculation based on measurements, a brief description of that method.

• Marginal note:Required information — fictional consolidated wastewater system

  (2) Despite subsection (1), an owner or operator of a fictional consolidated wastewater system must send an identification report that contains

  • (a) for each of the original wastewater systems that constitute the fictional consolidated wastewater system, the information referred to in paragraphs (1)(a) to (c), (e), (g) and (h); and

  • (b) for the fictional consolidated wastewater system, the information referred to in paragraphs (1)(a) to (g) and (i).

• Marginal note:Latitude and longitude

  (3) The latitude and longitude of a point referred to in paragraph (1)(e), subparagraph (1)(f)(i) and paragraph (1)(g) are to be expressed in decimal degrees to four decimal places rounded to the nearest ten-thousandth of a degree and, if the latitude or longitude is equidistant between two ten-thousandths of a degree, to the higher of them.

• Marginal note:Electronic report

  (4) The identification report must be sent electronically in the form and format specified by the Minister of the Environment and must bear the electronic signature of the owner or operator, or their duly authorized representative. The identification report must be sent

  • (a) by May 15, 2013, if the wastewater system is in operation on January 1, 2013; and

  • (b) within 45 days after the wastewater system comes into operation, in any other case.

• Marginal note:Paper report

  (5) If the Minister of the Environment has not specified an electronic form and format or if it is not feasible to send the report electronically in accordance with subsection (4) because of circumstances beyond the owner’s or operator’s control, the report must be sent on paper, signed by the owner or operator, or their duly authorized representative, and in the form and format specified by the Minister of the Environment. However, if no form and format have been specified, it may be in any form and format.

• Marginal note:Change of information

  (6) If the information provided in the identification report changes, the owner or operator must send a notice that provides the updated information to the authorization officer no later than 45 days after the change.

• Marginal note:Decommissioning

  (7) An owner or operator of a wastewater system must, at least 45 days before the planned decommissioning of the wastewater system, send a notice to the authorization officer setting out the planned date of the decommissioning and information specifying the place, including the civic address, if any, of that place, where the identification report is to be kept.