This consultation was open from:
June 11, 2024
to July 26, 2024
Decision summary
An amended Environmental Compliance Approval was issued to Sun-Brite Foods Inc. for approval of upgrades to the existing works for the collection, transmission, treatment and disposal of treated process effluent, non-contact cooling water and stormwater runoff, serving the Sun-Brite site located at 1532 County Road 34, in the Town of Kingsville.
Location details
Site address
1532 County Road 34
Kingsville,
ON
Canada
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Sun-Brite Foods Inc.
1532 Country Road 34
Kingsville,
ON
N0P 2G0
Canada
Decision details
An amended Environmental Compliance Approval was issued to Sun-Brite Foods Inc. for approval of upgrades to the existing works for the collection, transmission, treatment and disposal of treated process effluent, non-contact cooling water and stormwater runoff, serving the Sun-Brite site located at 1532 County Road 34, in the Town of Kingsville.
The existing Sun-Brite facility is a food processing facility, canning tomatoes, sauces, condiments and beans.
The upgraded works will have an average flow of 4,200 cubic metres per day (wastewater treatment plant) and up to 7,700 cubic metres per day, including a maximum discharge rate of non-contact cooling water of 3,500 cubic metres per day during harvest period and 1,000 cubic metres per day per day during other times of the year.
The upgraded works will discharge via an existing 375 millimetres diametre outlet pipe located on Part 2 Plan 12R-24285 to the Melville-Bruner Drain Extension and ultimately via the Melville-Bruner Drain and the Lane Drain to Lake Erie or by spray irrigation.
The approved upgrades to the existing Wastewater Treatment Plant were designed to improve the peak flow management and to increase the capacity of the existing Wastewater Treatment Plant to handle high organic loading rates during the harvest period from August to October, resulting in a decrease of spray irrigation at the spray irrigation field.
The approved upgrades to the existing Wastewater Treatment Plant consist of:
- two influent lifting pumps;
- one pipe flocculator;
- pipe flocculator chemical feed systems;
- one Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) system;
- one sludge handling pump; and
- one centrifugal sludge dewatering system
The approved new stormwater management works were designed for the collection, transmission, treatment and disposal of stormwater runoff from a catchment area of approximately 1.3 hectares, consisting of a new approximately 0.94 hectares warehouse building site to be located within the approximately 1.3 hectares southern portion of the site and to provide Basic Level water quality protection and erosion control and to attenuate post-development peak flows to allowable discharge rates, for all storm events up to and including the 100-year return storm.
The approved new stormwater management works will discharge to the existing Melville Bruner Drain and consist of:
- one grassed swale;
- 150 millimetres, 525 millimetres and 750 millimetres diameter on-site storm sewers;
- one 150 millimetres diameter on-site storm sewer; and
- one stormwater management dry pond
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M4V 1P5
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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:
- 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:
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)
Sun-Brite Foods Inc.
1532 Country Road 34
Kingsville,
ON
N0P 2G0
Canada
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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Original proposal
Proposal details
This proposal is for an amendment to the existing Environmental Compliance Approval No. A-500-7090033587 issued on December 11, 2020, for approval of sewage works for the collection, transmission, treatment and disposal of treated process effluent, non-contact cooling water and stormwater runoff, serving a food processing facility canning tomatoes, sauces, condiments and beans, located at 1532 County Road 34 in the Town of Kingsville, Onario. The proposed works will discharge to the Melville-Bruner Drain Extension, and ultimately via the Melville-Bruner Drain and the Lane Drain to Lake Erie, or by spray irrigation.
This amendment application is for approval of upgrades to the existing Wastewater Treatment Plant and the establishment of stormwater management works for the collection, transmission, treatment, and disposal of stormwater runoff from the new warehouse portion of the site.
The proposed works consist of:
- a Dissolved Air Flotation with pipe flocculator system for chemical addition (pH adjustment, coagulant agent and polymer) to enhance the solids removal;
- a centrifugal dewatering system for sludge management;
- a drainage grassed swale; and
- a stormwater management dry pond.
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.
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135 St. Clair Avenue West
Floor 1
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
Comment
Commenting is now closed.
This consultation was open from June 11, 2024
to July 26, 2024
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