AI-assisted research summary: This regulation requires approvals and ministerial oversight for constructing, altering, operating, and reporting on sewerage and sewage treatment systems, and it sets operating and engineering standards.
Water Works, Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Regulation, M.R. 331/88 R The Public Health Act , C.C.S.M. c. P210 Regulation 331/88 R Registered August 29, 1988 bilingual version (HTML) Table of Contents Section 1 Definitions 2-5 Repealed 6-9 Sewerage and sewage disposal 10-12 Responsibilities of municipal councils Definitions 1 In this regulation, "sanitary district" means a corporation incorporated under an Act of the Legislature for the purpose of the public collection and disposal of sewage; (« district sanitaire ») "sewerage system" means all sewers, appurtenances, pumping stations, treatment works, and all physical properties of the system, but does not include extensions to the collection systems; (« système d'égouts ») "water district" means a corporation incorporated under an Act of the Legislature for the purpose of collecting and distributing water on a wholesale basis. (« district d'approvionnement ») M.R. 38/2007 2 to 5 [Repealed] M.R. 38/2007 Sewerage and sewage disposal 6 A municipality, sanitary district, or person contemplating the construction or alteration of a common sewer, or of a public sewerage system or sewage treatment and disposal system, shall submit to the minister the plans, specifications, engineers' reports, and estimates, and all information and data in connection therewith, or with the treatment and disposal of the sewage, verified by affidavit stating that the plans and specifications so submitted are those to be used and followed in the construction or alteration of the sewer or system. 7(1) No municipality, sanitary district, or person, shall construct, alter, or operate a common sewer, sewerage system or system of sewage treatment and disposal, without first obtaining from the minister a certificate stating that the proposed construction or alteration may be carried out, and the sewer or sewerage system or system of sewage treatment and disposal as constructed or altered shall be maintained and operated in accordance with the requirements, if any, of The Environment Act , regulations made under that Act, or any person, corporation, or organization having lawful authority in the matter. 7(2) The minister may notify the municipality, or sanitary district or person, as the case may be, of any alterations or additions, which, in the interests of the public health, the minister may consider necessary in an existing or proposed common sewer or sewerage system, or in the plans or specifications for sewage treatment and disposal, or in both the plans and specifications as submitted, and the minister shall specify the alterations or additions. 7(3) The certificate referred to in subsection (1) shall not be granted until the alterations and additions specified in any notification given under subsection (2) have been made and adopted. 8 Except in the case of any sanitary district, no common sewer or sewerage system shall be established or continued unless there is maintained in connection therewith a system of sewage treatment and disposal satisfactory to the minister, and the minister may call for, and any municipality, sanitary district, or person, shall, when requested, furnish forthwith, such information and data in relation to such matters under its or his or her control, as the minister may consider necessary. 9 Sewage treatment plants shall be so designed, constructed, equipped and operated as to produce an effluent of sufficient stability or purity as to cause no nuisance or offence during periods of minimum flow of the river or other water course into which the effluent is discharged, and in accordance with the requirements, if any, of The Environment Act and regulations made under that Act. Responsibilities of municipal councils 10 A municipality, sanitary district, water district, or person having control of a sewerage system, sewage disposal or treatment works or plant, or public water system, is responsible for managing, operating, working, or controlling the system, works, or plant in an efficient and safe manner and in conformity with the requirements, if any, of the minister or The Environment Act and regulations made under that Act, and every such system, works, or plant shall be under competent supervision. 11 Any municipality or person discharging raw or untreated sewage into any water course within the province shall make adequate provisions for disposal of all sewage to the satisfaction of the minister, and in accordance with the requirements, if any, of The Environment Act and regulations made under that Act. 12 All engineering design in regard to public water systems and sewerage projects shall be done by engineers competent in the field, and those engineers must be persons who are professional engineers within the meaning of The Engineering and Geoscientific Professions Act . M.R. 38/2007