This consultation was open from:
August 9, 2024
to September 23, 2024
Decision summary
A new Environmental Compliance Approval is granted to Clovermead Apiaries Limited for the collection, transmission, treatment and disposal of sanitary wastewater from a family owned and operated adventure farm that offers seasonal activities and events for visitors in the Township of Malahide, Ontario.
Location details
Site address
11302 Imperial Road
Malahide,
ON
Canada
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Clovermead Apiaries Limited
11302 Imperial Road
Malahide,
ON
N5H 2R3
Canada
Decision details
A new Environmental Compliance Approval is granted to Clovermead Apiaries Limited for the collection, transmission, treatment and disposal of sanitary wastewater from a family owned and operated adventure farm that offers seasonal activities and events for visitors in the Township of Malahide, Ontario.
The approved process wastewater sewage works includes:
- two septic tanks and two pump tanks servicing Staff Quarters and North Storage Shed/Washroom
- four proposed septic tanks in treatment area
- one pump tank in treatment area
- one raised absorption trench leaching bed
This approval also includes an existing septic system was approved under Building Code, consisting of:
- one precast concrete MicroFast® 1.5 treatment unit including one primary chamber, one secondary aeration chamber, and one pump station
- one dispersal bed
Effects of consultation
No comments were received.
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733 Exeter Road
London,
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N6E 1L3
Canada
135 St. Clair Avenue West
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Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
How to Appeal
This instrument decision can be appealed. You have 15 days from July 30, 2025 to begin the appeal process.
Carefully review the information below to learn more about the appeal process.
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Start the process to appeal
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)
Clovermead Apiaries Limited
11302 Imperial Road
Malahide,
ON
N5H 2R3
Canada
Registrar, Ontario Land Tribunal
655 Bay Street, Suite 1500
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1E5
(416) 212-6349
(866) 448-2248
OLT.Registrar@ontario.ca
Include the following:
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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Canada
Original proposal
Proposal details
This proposal is for a new Environmental Compliance Approval (sewage) for Clovermead Apiaries Limited to install an onsite sewage system to service the Clovermead Adventure Farm facilities, located at 11302 Imperial Road in the Township of Malahide, County of Elgin, Ontario.
The proposed sewage disposal system is sized to operate with a total daily flow of 40,000 litres per day. The proposed sewage works include a collection system, treatment area consisting of septic tanks, and discharge of effluent to a raised absorption trench bed, which consists of:
- five (5) pump tanks, equipped with simplex sewage pumps, to convey wastewater from Site buildings to the treatment area;
- one (1) existing septic tank and one (1) proposed septic tank equipped with an effluent filter, and two (2) pump tanks, equipped with simplex effluent pumps, to convey wastewater from the staff quarters and north storage shed/washroom to the treatment area;
- four (4) septic tanks, connected in series, with an effluent filter at the outlet of the fourth septic tank (treatment area);
- one (1) pump tank, equipped with duplex effluent pumps, to time-dose the raised absorption trench leaching bed; and
- a raised fill-based absorption trench leaching bed, consisting of distribution piping, to be constructed in two (2) zones, with each zone consisting of four (4) cells.
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135 St Clair Ave West
1st Floor
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1P5
Canada
Comment
Commenting is now closed.
This consultation was open from August 9, 2024
to September 23, 2024
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