A7. Wastewater: Federal Sources

Legislation

Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulations, SOR/2012-139, and Fisheries Act of Canada, Registration 2012-06-29

Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulations, P.C. 2012-942 2012-06-28

Applies to

Owners/operators of wastewater systems

Prepared by

Owners/operators of wastewater systems

Submitted to/ publication requirements

To Environment and Climate Change Canada by an online electronic form

https://www.ec.gc.ca/eu-ww/default.asp?lang=En&n=27D11C91-1

http://www.fcm.ca/home/issues/clean-water-/federal-wastewater-systems-effluent-regulations.htm

Due date/ frequency

Quarter or Annual Reporting

Quarterly reporters:

Deadlines are:

• January 1 to March 31 - May 15
• April 1 to June 30 - August 14
• July 1 to September 30 - November 14
• October 1 to December 31 - February 14

Annual reporters:

Deadline for the annual January 1 to December 31 report - February 14

Minimum data requirements

Fields in application form and profile include:

• Name of owner
• Civic address
• Postal address
• Operator information
• Wastewater system name
• System type (continuous or intermittent)
• Type of wastewater treatment
• Average daily effluent volume in cubic metres
• Average suspended solids
• Type of receiving water body
• Name of receiving body (name of water frequented by fish into which effluent is deposited)
• Final discharge point for wastewater - mapping coordinates (other than overflow point, beyond which owner no longer exercises control over the quality before it is deposited as effluent in a water or a place)
• Point of entry for wastewater mapping coordinates (the point at which effluent is deposited in water that contains fish)
• Combined sewer overflow points
• Receiving body type overflow points
• Sanitary sewer overflow points
• Receiving body type sanitary sewer points

Issues/ drawbacks

Not consistently available to researchers.

Other information

Not a public dataset, but Environment and Climate Change Canada has released it on previous occasions.