Wallenstein Feed & Supply Ltd. - Environmental Compliance Approval (sewage)

Instrument type: Environmental Compliance Approval (sewage)

ERO number
013-4789
Ministry reference number
2953-B8RRCG
Notice type
Instrument
Act
Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990
Posted by
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Notice stage
Decision Updated
Decision posted
Comment period
February 27, 2019 - April 13, 2019 (45 days) Closed
Last updated

Update Announcement

This proposal notice has been updated on March 5, 2021 to advise the public that this application is still under active review. Any comments received to date are being considered as part of the review. The original proposal date and comment period have not been altered.

This consultation was open from:
February 27, 2019
to April 13, 2019

Decision summary

A new Environmental Compliance Approval is granted to Wallenstein Feed & Supply Ltd. for the treatment and disposal of four process wastewater streams, as well as stormwater runoff from a drainage area of 8.2 hectares, serving a site with four feed mills located at 7307 Wellington Road 86 in the Township of Mapleton.

Location details

Site address

7307 Wellington Road 86
Mapleton
Wallenstein, ON
N0B 2S0
Canada

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Proponent(s)

Wallenstein Feed & Supply Ltd.
7307 Wellington Road 86 Road
Wallenstein, ON
N0B 2S0
Canada

Decision details

A new Environmental Compliance Approval is granted to Wallenstein Feed & Supply Ltd. for the treatment and disposal of four process wastewater streams (including media filter backwash, polisher backwash, reverse osmosis (RO) wastewater, and boiler blowdown) generated in a boiler house, as well as stormwater runoff from a total drainage area of 8.2 hectares, serving a site with four feed mills located at 7307 Wellington Road 86 in the Township of Mapleton.

The approved works consist of:

  • an existing 10,000 litre two-compartment settling tank
  • stormwater conveyance system
  • one water reservoir having an effective volume of 3,900 cubic metres with capacity for the 5 year storm event
  • one pump chamber
  • one wastewater/stormwater treatment system having a design capacity of 15.5 litres per second

It also consists of:

  • an alum and polymer injection unit
  • a pH adjustment unit
  • a slant plate clarifier
  • five Macrolite media filters
  • three carbon adsorption filters

The final effluent will discharge into an adjacent valley that is within the floodplain of a tributary to the Conestogo River.

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Environmental Approvals Access and Service Integration Branch
Address

135 St. Clair Avenue West
Floor 1
Toronto, ON
M4V 1P5
Canada

Office phone number
Guelph District Office
Address

1 Stone Road West
Guelph, ON
N1G 4Y2
Canada

Office phone number

How to Appeal

This instrument decision can be appealed. You have 15 days from April 1, 2021 to begin the appeal process.

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Appeal process for decisions published before June 1, 2021

If you’re an Ontario resident, you can start the process to appeal this instrument decision.

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:

  1. prepare your application
  2. provide notice to the minister
  3. 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:

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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:

  1. 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?
  2. 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:

College Park 5th Floor, 777 Bay St.
Toronto, ON 
M7A 2J3

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)

Issuing authority
Fariha Pannu
Manager

Environmental Assessment and Permissions Branch
1st Floor, 135 St Clair Ave W
Toronto, ON
M4V 1P5
Canada

416-314-7092

Proponent(s)

Wallenstein Feed & Supply Ltd.
7307 Wellington Road 86 Road
Wallenstein, ON
N0B 2S0
Canada


Appellate body

Environmental Review Tribunal
Attention: The Secretary
655 Bay Street
Floor 15
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1E5
(416) 212-6349
(866) 448-2248
OLT.Registrar@ontario.ca

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Include the following:

ERO number
013-4789
Ministry reference number
2953-B8RRCG

This is not legal advice. Please refer to the Environmental Bill of Rights for exact legal requirements. Consult a lawyer if you need help with the appeal process.

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Original proposal

ERO number
013-4789
Ministry reference number
2953-B8RRCG
Notice type
Instrument
Act
Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990
Posted by
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Proposal posted

Comment period

February 27, 2019 - April 13, 2019 (45 days)

Proposal details

Description of instrument

This proposal is for a new Environmental Compliance Approval (Industrial Sewage Works) for Wallenstein Feed & Supply Ltd., for an on-site treatment system, located at 7307 Line 86, Wallenstein, Ontario.

This proposal is for the collection, transmission, treatment and disposal of process water (boiler blowdown, reverse osmosis reject stream, filter media backwash, and polisher backwash) and stormwater runoff. The process water will be treated by the 10,000-litre two (2) compartment precast settling tank complete with inlet baffle, effluent filter, and inlet piping before being discharged to a reservoir.

A cast-in-place concrete reservoir will provide sufficient attenuation of the 2, 5, and 100 year storm events. The reservoir will have:

  •  a diameter of 33.5 metres and depth of 4.4 metres;
  • an effective volume of 3,900 cubic metres with capacity for the 5 year storm event; and
  • an overflow.

The pump chamber will be gravity fed from the reservoir and will consist of an 8.5 metre deep 2400 millimetre pre-cast chamber complete with two submersible pumps; and variable frequency drives; with a Firm Capacity of 15.5 litres per second and pumps operating on an alternating basis.

The pumps will discharge to the 15.5 litres per second treatment system consisting of:

  • alum and polymer injection,
  • pH adjustment with caustic,
  • a slant plate clarifier,
  • five (5) Macrolite media filters each with a media capacity of 0.34 cubic metre and
  • three (3) carbon adsorption filters each with 2267 kilograms of GAC.

The treated runoff will be discharged to the adjacent valley via gravity. The Ministry may require monitoring of the industrial wastewater and stormwater effluent discharge leaving the site.

Supporting materials

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Get in touch with the office listed below to find out if materials are available.

Environmental Approvals Access and Service Integration Branch
Address

135 St. Clair Avenue West
Floor 1
Toronto, ON
M4V 1P5
Canada

Office phone number
Guelph District Office
Address

1 Stone Road West
Guelph, ON
N1G 4Y2
Canada

Office phone number

Comment

Commenting is now closed.

This consultation was open from February 27, 2019
to April 13, 2019

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