Consolidated Fastfrate (Ottawa) Holdings Inc. - Environmental Compliance Approval (sewage)

Instrument type: Environmental Compliance Approval (sewage)

ERO number
019-6094
Ministry reference number
7463-CGJR5A
Notice type
Instrument
Act
Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990
Posted by
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Notice stage
Decision
Decision posted
Comment period
October 5, 2022 - November 19, 2022 (45 days) Closed
Last updated

This consultation was open from:
October 5, 2022
to November 19, 2022

Decision summary

A new Environmental Compliance Approval was issued to Consolidated Fastfrate (Ottawa) Holdings Inc. for approval of stormwater management works and works for the treatment of sanitary sewage and subsurface disposal, to service the Fastfrate Ottawa Warehouse and Distribution Facilities site, located at 301 Somme Street in the City of Ottawa.

Location details

Site address

301 Somme Street
Ottawa, ON
Canada

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Proponent(s)

Consolidated Fastfrate (Ottawa) Holdings Inc.
9701 Highway 50
Woodbridge, ON
L4H 2G4
Canada

Decision details

A new Environmental Compliance Approval was issued to Consolidated Fastfrate (Ottawa) Holdings Inc. for approval of:

  • the establishment of stormwater management works for the collection, transmission, treatment and disposal of stormwater runoff from a catchment area of approximately 3.7 hectares, discharging to the existing roadside ditch located along Somme Street and ultimately to the existing Hawthorne Industrial Park Stormwater Management Pond
  • the establishment of works for the treatment of sanitary sewage and subsurface disposal of treated effluent from the Fastfrate Ottawa Warehouse and Distribution Facilities, rated at a maximum daily flow of 12,800 litres per day, to service the Fastfrate Ottawa Warehouse and Distribution Facilities site located within the Hawthorne Industrial Park, at 301 Somme Street in the City of Ottawa

The approved stormwater management works consists of:

  • rooftop storage
  • two enhanced grassed swales
  • one extended detention stormwater management wet pond/fire protection pond discharging to the existing roadside ditch located along Somme Street and ultimately to the existing Hawthorne Industrial Park Stormwater Management Pond

The approved sanitary sewage treatment and subsurface disposal works consist of:

  • a one-compartment anaerobic digester tank
  • a one-compartment Biofilter pump tank
  • a Waterloo Biofilter treatment system
  • a one-compartment WaterNOx-LS tank
  • a one-compartment SBT pump tank
  • a raised pressurized shallow buried trench disposal system

Comments received

Through the registry

1

By email

0

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0
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Effects of consultation

One comment was received regarding the design fire protection volume within the proposed extended detention stormwater management wet pond/fire protection pond.

Ministry response

The proposed extended detention stormwater management wet pond/fire protection pond will provide a total storage capacity for two distinct storage volumes.

One is called a permanent pool volume which holds stormwater on a permanent basis from the bottom of the pond to a specific elevation. The permanent pool volume is to ensure that the amount of water required for fire protection is always available. The permanent pool volume also improves stormwater suspended sediments quality treatment by allowing sediments to settle before treated stormwater is discharged from the pond at allowable discharge rates (based on the Hawthorne Industrial Park Stormwater Management Report) to the existing roadside ditch located along Somme Street and ultimately to the existing Hawthorne Industrial Park Stormwater Management Pond.

The second storage volume is called an active storage volume (stormwater management effective retention volume). This volume is provided by the difference in the elevation between the top of the permanent pool water level and the elevations at which treated stormwater will discharge via an outlet structure during rain events.

The treated stormwater discharged from the proposed extended detention stormwater management wet pond/fire protection pond is restricted to a specific discharge rate before it is discharged from the site, thus creating backflow and stormwater accumulation within the active storage volume (stormwater management effective retention volume) during rain events. The proposed extended detention stormwater management wet pond/fire protection pond was designed to attenuate post-development peak flows to allowable discharge rates (based on the Hawthorne Industrial Park Stormwater Management Report) for all storm events up to and including the 100-year return storm. When a rainfall storm event is larger than the 100-year return storm, the water level within the pond will rise to the elevation of a 3.0 m wide rip rap lined spill emergency overflow structure and the discharge from the pond will be from the outlet structure and the spill emergency overflow structure.

Prior to stormwater runoff discharged from the site to the proposed extended detention stormwater management wet pond/fire protection pond, additional stormwater treatment will be provided in the proposed approximately 215 m long enhanced grassed swale (West Ditch) located along the western and southern boundaries of the site and the approximately 190 m long enhanced grassed swale (East Ditch) located along the eastern boundary of the site.

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Client Services and Permissions Branch
Address

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

Office phone number

How to Appeal

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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)

Consolidated Fastfrate (Ottawa) Holdings Inc.
9701 Highway 50
Woodbridge, ON
L4H 2G4
Canada


Appellate body

Registrar, Ontario Land Tribunal
655 Bay Street, Suite 1500
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1E5
(416) 212-6349
(866) 448-2248
OLT.Registrar@ontario.ca

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Include the following:

ERO number
019-6094
Ministry reference number
7463-CGJR5A

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
019-6094
Ministry reference number
7463-CGJR5A
Notice type
Instrument
Act
Environmental Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990
Posted by
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Proposal posted

Comment period

October 5, 2022 - November 19, 2022 (45 days)

Proposal details

The proposal is for a new Environmental Compliance Approval for Consolidated Fastfrate (Ottawa) Holdings Inc. for sewage treatment and stormwater management works to serve an industrial building, located at 301 Somme Street, Ottawa, Ontario.

This application is for the establishment of year round subsurface sewage disposal works rated at 12,800 litres per day, and includes a septic tank of minimum volume of 38,400 litres, package treatment system with a level IV treatment unit and a submersible pumping system (2 pumps) meeting minimum clearances for treatment unit listed in the OBC Table 8.2.1.6.A, and subsurface disposal bed consisting of a Shallow Buried Trench (SBT) Leaching Bed.

The ministry may require effluent monitoring and may impose effluent limits.

The stormwater management works comprise of stormwater quantity control works, and include on-site storm sewers and ditches, rooftop and surface storage, and a stormwater management wet pond, and will discharge to an existing roadside ditch, located along Somme Street.

The private sewage treatment works comprise of a collection system, sedimentation tank, filtration tank, effluent measurement/monitoring equipment and associated appurtenances, and are designed to meet effluent quality requirement prior to discharge through a shallow-buried trench, followed by subsurface discharge.

Supporting materials

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Client Services and Permissions Branch
Address

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

Office phone number

Comment

Commenting is now closed.

This consultation was open from October 5, 2022
to November 19, 2022

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