BELMONT LAKE MARINA REPAIRS AND SERVICE - Approval for variance from the Liquid Fuels Handling Code

Instrument type: Approval for variance from the Liquid Fuels Handling Code

ERO number
019-9424
Ministry reference number
WO 14296329
Notice type
Instrument
Act
Technical Standards & Safety Act, 2000
Posted by
Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA)
Notice stage
Decision
Decision posted
Comment period
November 20, 2024 - December 20, 2024 (30 days) Closed
Last updated

This consultation was open from:
November 20, 2024
to December 20, 2024

Decision summary

The variance is approved.

 

Location details

Site address

56 FIRE ROUTE 33
HAVELOCK, ON
K0L 1Z0
Canada

Site location details

Marina

Proponent(s)

BELMONT LAKE MARINA REPAIRS AND SERVICE
56 FIRE ROUTE 33
HAVELOCK, ON
K0L 1Z0
Canada

Decision details

BELMONT LAKE MARINA REPAIRS AND SERVICE may install a 4500 L. aboveground tank 12 inches (0.3 m) from the property line.

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Technical Standards and Safety Authority
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345 Carlingview Drive
Toronto, ON
M9W 6N9
Canada

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How to Appeal

This instrument decision can be appealed. You have 15 days from January 3, 2025 to begin the appeal process.

Carefully review the information below to learn more about the appeal process.

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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)


Proponent(s)

BELMONT LAKE MARINA REPAIRS AND SERVICE
56 FIRE ROUTE 33
HAVELOCK, ON
K0L 1Z0
Canada


Appellate body

The Registrar
Divisional Court (Toronto Region)
130 Queen Street West
Osgoode Hall - Room 174
Toronto 
M5H 2N5 
Phone: (416) 327-5100 
Fax: (416) 327-5549


Include the following:

ERO number
019-9424
Ministry reference number
WO 14296329

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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M9W 6N9
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Original proposal

ERO number
019-9424
Ministry reference number
WO 14296329
Notice type
Instrument
Act
Technical Standards & Safety Act, 2000
Posted by
Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA)
Proposal posted

Comment period

November 20, 2024 - December 20, 2024 (30 days)

Proposal details

Liquid Fuels Handling Code (LFHC) Requirements that Would Not be Met:

3.2.1.1.  Tanks specified in Clause 3.1.1 shall be installed in accordance with the standard to which they have been certified, this Code, and the Ontario Fire Code (notwithstanding any exemption in the Ontario Fire Code from the Technical Standards and Safety Act, 2000). In the event of a conflict, this Code shall prevail.

Note: See Table 1 for location requirements in accordance with the Ontario Fire Code.

Table 1

Location of aboveground storage tanks

 

 

Maximum tank capacity, L

Minimum distance to a property

line or to a building on the same

property, m

250 000

3

500 000

4.5

250 0000

9

500 0000

12

over 5 000 000

15

 

 

Note: This Table has been reprinted from Table 4.3.2.A of the Ontario Fire Code

 

Why the Code Would Not be Met:

  • It will be the furthest from the lake that it possibly can be on this site.

 

Safety Assessment

  1. A letter of acceptance from the neighbors of adjacent property agreeing on the proposed 12 inches (0.3 m) distance from their property line.
  2. A permit for the replacement of an underground tank with an aboveground tank issued by Crowe Valley Conservation Authority (CVCA) including the following:

 

PROPOSAL DETAILS:

  • The existing underground fuel tank is 4,500 litres in size (footprint of 12 feet by 4 feet by 4 feet in size).
  • The proposed above ground fuel tank will also be 4,500 litres in size (footprint of 12 feet by 4 feet by 4 feet in size).
  • The proposed above ground tank will be attached to 14 feet long 5 feet wide (70ft2) 8-inch think concrete pad.
  • The distance (vertical) from annual high-water mark of .450 (on the existing water gauge) to the top of the concrete pad is 4 feet 2 inches and to the bottom of the tank itself 4 feet 6 inches.
    • The tank saddle supports are approximately 4 inches tall.
  • The distance (vertical) from annual high-water mark of .450 to the top of proposed above ground fuel tank is 9 feet.
  • The existing underground fuel tank is a vertical distance of 1 foot above .450 at the bottom of the tank and 4 feet above .450 at the top of the tank.
  • The distance (horizontal) from the southeast side of fuel tank pad to ordinary high-water mark is 24 feet at its closest point and 42 feet from the ordinary high water mark to the north side of the pad.
  • No in-water works required.

BASIS FOR CVCA APPROVAL

  • The proposed activity is not likely to affect the control of flooding.
    • The proposed development will be approximately 4 feet 6 inches from the bottom of the tank and 9 feet from the top of the tank to the ordinary high-water mark of Belmont Lake.
      • The regulatory flood elevation of Belmont Lake is 188.80masl CGDV 1928.
  • The proposed activity is not likely to affect the control of erosion.
  • The proposed activity is not likely to affect the control of unstable soil or bedrock.
  • The proposed activity is not likely to create conditions or circumstances that, in the event of a natural hazard, might jeopardize the health or safety of persons or result in the damage or destruction of property.

 

TSSA assesses that there is likely to be no environmental impact should this variance be granted.

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.

Get in touch with the office listed below to find out if materials are available.

Technical Standards and Safety Authority
Address

345 Carlingview Drive
Toronto, ON
M9W 6N9
Canada

Office phone number

Comment

Commenting is now closed.

This consultation was open from November 20, 2024
to December 20, 2024

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Contact

Marek Kulik

Phone number
Email address
Office
Technical Standards and Safety Authority
Address

345 Carlingview Drive
Toronto, ON
M9W 6N9
Canada

Office phone number