This consultation was open from:
September 18, 2018
to November 2, 2018
Decision summary
We granted a new Environmental Compliance Approval for a sewage treatment works servicing 1048547 Ontario Inc. operating as Skotidakis Goat Farm.
Location details
Site address
185 County Road 10
United Counties of Prescott and Russell
East Hawkesbury,
ON
Canada
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1048547 Ontario Inc. operating as Skotidakis Goat Farm
185 County Road
East Hawkesbury,
ON
K0B 1P0
Canada
Decision details
Decision on instrument
We granted a new Environmental Compliance Approval for a sewage treatment works servicing 1048547 Ontario Inc. operating as Skotidakis Goat Farm. It is located at 185 County Road 10 in the Township of East Hawkesbury, Ontario. Skotidakis operates a diary farm that manufactures cheese based products.
The approved treatment works include:
- an existing lift station
- an anaerobic selector silo
- an aerobic biological treatment basin
- a solids/liquid separation unit
- a sludge storage lagoon
- tertiary filtration system
The industrial plant is designed to treat an average and peak day flows of 400 and 600 m3/day respectively discharging to the Rigaud River. The Ministry will require weekly and monitoring effluent leaving the plant and has imposed effluent criteria. The modificaitons include withdrawal of water from the Rigaud River to cool the plant's process equipment and the return of the cooling combined with treated effluent as a means to of diluting it before its return to the river. The ECA has placed a restriction on the temperature increase of the returning water and maximum waste loading. Skotidakis has submitted an a Permit to Take Water Application in addition to the ECA.
The attached document is intended for posting on the Environmental Registry in order to provide the reader with the substantive content of the issued instrument. Please note the official version may be differently formatted or otherwise contain minor variations from this version.
Effects of consultation
Summary of comment(s)
Skotidakis comment 210859 provided in French on 2017/08/25 and translated in English The comment pertained to the construction of a new WWTP and use of the Rigaud River as a receiver. It cited concerns with respect to low river flows in the summer, an increase of biochemical oxygen demand, an increase in phosphorus and acute toxicity as result of higher ammonia.
Ministry's response
The Ministry has addressed all of these concerns in its Environmental Compliance Approval. The ECA does not allow the release of effleunt to the river when flows are at or below 0.5 m3/s. During periods when the effluent is below this value effluent will be stored in the onsite lagoon. The ECA stipulates final effluent compliance limits as 10 mg/L for CBOD5, 0.1 mg/L for total phosphorus and TAN limits of 1 mg/l for summer and 3 mg/L winter respectively. Acute toxicity testing is required to ensure non-toxic effluent with respect to ammonia. Finally the ECA stipulates that chlorides in the final effluent must be at or below 1,000 mg/L.The Ministry believes that the addition of a new WWTP will not adversely impact the quality of the Rigaud's River.
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Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
How to Appeal
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First, you’ll need to seek leave (i.e. get permission) from the relevant appellate body to appeal the decision.
If the appellate body grants leave, the appeal itself will follow.
Seek leave to appeal
To seek leave to appeal, you need to do these three things:
- prepare your application
- provide notice to the minister
- mail your application to three parties
1. Prepare your application
You’ll need to prepare an application. You may wish to include the following things in your application:
- A document that includes:
- your name, phone number, fax number (if any), and/or email address
- the ERO number and ministry reference number (located on this page)
- a statement about whether you are a resident in Ontario
- your interest in the decision, and any facts you want taken into account in deciding whether you have an interest in the decision
- the parts of the instrument that you’re challenging
- whether the decision could result in significant harm to the environment
- the reason(s) why you believe that no reasonable person – having regard to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind – could have made the decision
- the grounds (facts) you’ll be using to appeal
- the outcome you’d like to see
- A copy of the instrument (approval, permit, order) that you you are seeking leave to appeal. You’ll find this in the decision notice on the Environmental Registry
- Copies of all supporting documents, facts and evidence that you’ll be using to appeal
What is considered
The appeal body will consider the following two questions in deciding whether to grant you leave to appeal:
- is there is good reason to believe that no reasonable person, with respect to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind, could have made the decision?
- could the decision you wish to appeal result in significant harm to the environment?
2. Provide your notice
You’ll need to provide notice to the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks that you’re seeking leave to appeal.
In your notice, please include a brief description of the:
- decision that you wish to appeal
- grounds for granting leave to appeal
You can provide notice by email at minister.mecp@ontario.ca or by mail at:
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3. Mail your application
You’ll need to mail your application that you prepared in step #1 to each of these three parties:
- appellate body
- issuing authority (the ministry official who issued the instrument)
- proponent (the company or individual to whom the instrument was issued)
1048547 Ontario Inc. operating as Skotidakis Goat Farm
185 County Road
East Hawkesbury,
ON
K0B 1P0
Canada
Environmental Review Tribunal
Attention: The Secretary
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Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1E5
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OLT.Registrar@ontario.ca
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Description of instrument
This proposal is for a new Environmental Compliance Approval for an industrial sewage treatment works servicing 1048547 Ontario Inc. operating as Skotidakis Goat Farm located at 185 County Road 10 in the Township of East Hawkesbury, Ontario.
The industrial sewage treatment works is comprised of a wastewater treatment plant, which consists of:
- an existing lift station,
- an anaerobic selector silo,
- an aerobic biological treatment basin,
- a solids/liquid separation unit,
- a sludge storage lagoon, and
- tertiary filtration system.
The plant will withdraw water from the Rigaud River to cool its process equipment and return the water combined with the treated effluent to the river.
Skotidakis is submitting a Permit to Take Water Application to the Ministry. The industrial sewage treatment plant is designed to have a maximum flow of 600,000 litres/day and will discharge to the Rigaud River.
The Ministry will require monitoring of the industrial wastewater and stormwater effluent leaving the plant.
Supporting materials
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Some supporting materials may not be available online. If this is the case, you can request to view the materials in person.
Get in touch with the office listed below to find out if materials are available.
135 St. Clair Avenue West
1st floor
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
Comment
Commenting is now closed.
This consultation was open from September 18, 2018
to November 2, 2018
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