A6. Wastewater: Provincial Sources

1. STP_Sewage Treatment Plant

Legislation	n/a
Applies to	Ministry of Municipal Affairs (MMA)
Prepared by	MMA
Submitted to/publication requirements	Provided to the Neptis Foundation in 2016
Due date/ frequency	One time
Minimum data requirements	Fields include: Plant name Owner/Operator Works # Certificate of Approval # (now called a ECA #) Plant Type Mapping coordinates
Issues/ drawbacks	One-time only. Needs updating.

2. Environmental Compliance Approvals

Legislation	Environmental Protection Act (EPA), Part II.1; Ontario Water Resources Act (OWRA); Environmental Bill of Rights (EBR) O. Reg. 255/11: Applications for Environmental Compliance Approvals
Applies to	Municipality/owner/operator of WWTP
Prepared by	Municipality/owner/operator of WWTP
Submitted to/publication requirements	Client Services and Permissions Branch, MOECC 135 St Clair Ave W, Toronto, ON, M4V 1P5
Due date/ frequency	When applying for a new licence or amending an existing ECA (Environment Compliance Approval)
Minimum data requirements	Reporting requirements specified in letter of approval. Fields in electronic form include: Applicant name/business name Project name Project description executive summary Type: municipal government, federal, corporate, individual, etc. Address Geo-reference ECA approval number - if modifying - or new number Date of issue Name of municipality Source protection/drinking water threats Name of source protection area Receiver of effluent discharge (e.g., Great Lake, Lake Simcoe, Rouge River) Type of sewage treatment plant (primary, secondary, tertiary, lagoon, etc.) Type of pipe: storm sewer, combined sewer, sanitary sewer, ditches, forcemains, pumping stations Maximum design capacity of plant (cubic metres) Type of servicing: residential (breakdowns), commercial, industrial Type of disposal to groundwater, surface water, leachate, etc. Effluent limits
Issues/ drawbacks	Data is available through Access Environment, but queries lead to data in an unstandardized PDF format.
Other information	Electronic application form: https://dr6j45jk9xcmk.cloudfront.net/documents/4782/5-8-1-eca-application-en-2015-v6.pdf

3. Ontario Wastewater Inventory (OWI)

Legislation	n/a
Applies to	Municipalities
Prepared by	Municipalities
Submitted to/publication requirements	Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change
Due date/ frequency	Quarterly
Minimum data requirements	Dataset containing information of industrial and communal facilities that discharge wastewater and have been inspected or are regulated under Environmental Compliance Approvals in Ontario.
Issues/ drawbacks	Not yet available: Government of Ontario is reviewing this data set and may make it available on its open data portal.
Other information	https://www.ontario.ca/data/ontario-wastewater-inventory-owi

4. Municipal Wastewater Effluent Discharge Data

Legislation	n/a
Applies to	Municipalities
Prepared by	Municipalities
Submitted to/publication requirements	Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change
Due date/ frequency	Quarterly
Minimum data requirements	Effluent quality monitoring data for about 500 municipal wastewater treatment plants in Ontario.
Issues/ drawbacks	Not yet available: Government of Ontario is reviewing this data set and may make it available on its open data portal.
Other information	https://www.ontario.ca/data/municipal-wastewater

5. Wastewater information in the Drinking Water Information System (DWIS)

Legislation	n/a
Applies to	MOECC
Prepared by	MOECC
Submitted to/publication requirements	Internal use for MOECC. MOECC has indicated that data/reports can be provided upon request
Due date/ frequency	Updated regularly.
Minimum data requirements	Wastewater fields may include: Name of the system ECA # Municipality Owner Level of treatment Watershed Source (discharge) Population served Certificate of Approval Rated and design capacity
Issues/ drawbacks	MOECC staff have described this database to Neptis researchers. Does not capture quantity and flow rates.