Waste Management of Canada Corporation - Environmental Compliance Approval (multiple media)

This proposal is for a multi-media Environmental Compliance Approval (waste disposal site, air & noise and industrial sewage) for Waste Management of Canada Corporation, for a waste processing facility located at 19 Rockland Road North Dumfries, Ontario.

Waste Disposal Site

Waste Management of Canada Corporation (WMCC) proposes to develop, own and operate a new enclosed non-hazardous recycling facility. The recycling facility is 5.26 hectares area within a total site area of 7.24 hectares. The new recycling facility will receive solid, non-hazardous recyclables (primarily blue box recyclables), including various plastics, metals, and paper/fibres, and separate them into “like” products. The recycling facility will have an Ontario service area, and the hours of operation will be 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. five days per week, with a night shift for maintenance work. WMCC is proposing to receive up to 750 tonnes per day of Single Source Recyclable (SSR) materials. For storage, it is proposed the total amount of unprocessed, processed, and residual waste stored on-site, shall not exceed 1,000 tonnes at any time.

Air & Noise

Sources of air and noise emissions at the facility include a dust collection system, maintenance welding, and fugitive emissions from the operations from the transfer/processing facilities.

Contaminant emissions to the atmosphere include particulate matter.

Industrial Sewage

Stormwater management works at the site consist of an existing stormwater management pond (SWMP) on a 1 hectare area, collecting stormwater runoff from an approximately 8.5 hectare drainage area to provide water quality and quantity control as per regulatory requirements. The SWMP discharges to the Canadian Pacific Railway ditch, adjacent to the SWMP, which ultimately discharges to a tributary of Cedar Creek.