Laplante Poultry Farms Ltd. - Environmental Compliance Approval (sewage)

Proponent(s)

Laplante Poultry Farms Ltd.
3105 Dunning Road
Sarsfield, ON
K0A 3E0
Canada

Site Location Details

17141 Rombough Road
North Stormont Township, ON
K0C 1V0
Canada

To see the site location on a map, refer to the instrument proposal under ERO# 019-1677.

Instrument decision details

This amended Environmental Compliance Approval is for the expansion of wastewater treatment plant with an increase of its rated capacity from 39 to 65 cubic metre per day, to address the existing problems at the site (overflow of wastewater due to low capacity of the wastewater treatment plant). The enhancement of wastewater treatment plant will include:

• additional volume capacity for the Flow Equalization
• Anoxic Random Media Reactors increases from two to three
• increase the capacity of the prefabricated sewage package treatment
• increase the capacity of the subsurface disposal bed

Comments received

• 2 received through the registry
• 0 received by mail
• 0 received by email

Effects of consultation

Comments were received and reviewed, and, where appropriate, were considered in the design of sewage works by the consultant and in the ministry’s decision whether or not to proceed with this proposal.

The commenters raised the following concerns on the proposal with ministry’s responses attached:

1. Sewage from the plant overruns into a ditch on our property that connects to the township drainage. The green pollution growth in the ditch is terrible.
   
   Ministry’s response: this amendment application is to expand the wastewater treatment plant to avoid sewage overflow into offsite including the ditches. Treated effluent will be disposed by expanded subsurface disposal beds and no discharge to ditch is expected if the sewage system is properly operated.
    
2. Disgusting smell from the site.
   
   Ministry’s response: odour issue will be taken care of by the Air and Noise approval, This comment is passed to air review engineer and the Consultant is also aware of this comment and developed Odour Management Plant to address the issue.
    
3. I am concerned about our drinking water and the effect on my health of all this animal waste cleanup pollution.
   
   Ministry’s response: this wastewater treatment system upgrade is to address this concern. Properly treated effluent will be disposed through subsurface disposal beds. Groundwater monitoring program is developed and groundwater will be monitored to ensure no impact to drinking water.
    
4. Will there be regular independent sampling of waste water to ensure contaminants will never be permitted to flow into surface and ground water that may result in adjacent properties having contaminants in their well water or surface ditches?
   
   Ministry’s response: independent testing of effluent and groundwater samples will be carried out as detailed in the ECA.
    
5. Will there be scheduled maintenance and independent inspections of the process ensuring that potential contamination due to failure of filtering or bypass of filtering will have little or no effect on neighbouring water sources ?
   
   Ministry’s response: the owner is to develop operation manual outlining maintenance and inspection schedules. The ECA has clauses requiring the owner the carry out maintenance and inspections of the wastewater plant according to equipment manufacturer’s requirements as well as operation manual. The owner is required to report to the ministry on the operation of the system. All of these requirements will prevent discharge of untreated sewage into the subsurface.
    
6. Will the system consider further expansion of capacity and ensure its design capacity is respected through metering input or output?
   
   Ministry’s response: flows to the system will be measured by flowmeter and the owner has to limit its flow to the capacity of the wastewater plant. Any future expansion of the plant will require ECA amendment application to the ministry.
    
7. Are there added chemicals to the process that may over time contaminate ground water and / or have long term affects on health?
   
   Ministry’s response: according to the consultant, the plant will not be using any toxic chemicals of any kind and the chemicals proposed for use in the plant will not have any negative impact on groundwater quality or human health over the short or long term.  
    
8. Will there be limitations on chemical concentrations and will they me monitored?
   
   Ministry’s response: the use of chemicals will be monitored and recorded in operational logbooks which will be open for inspection by the ministry.

Third parties are not able to apply for leave to appeal in respect of proposals which are posted while Ontario Regulation 115/20 is in effect. On April 1, 2020, the Ontario Government made a temporary regulation to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak which exempts all proposals from the requirement to post notices on the ERO. Leave to appeal may only be sought in respect of instruments that are required to be posted to the ERO.

Appeal Information

Appeals are not allowed.
This instrument type cannot be appealed.