Are You Ready For The Proposed Fisheries Act “Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulations”?

Date: May 06th 2010

Presenter: Barry Kobryn Chair of the CWWA's Wastewater & Stormwater Committee Regulatory Analyst, Strategic Services City of Calgary, Tony Van Rossum Chair of the CWWA's Sewer-Use Subcommittee Environmental Services Engineer City of London

About The Webinar

The draft “Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulations” under the Fisheries Act were published in the Canada Gazette, Part 1 on March 20, 2010.

You'll Learn

• The roots of the regulations in the CCME’s “Canada-wide Strategy for the Management of Municipal Wastewater Effluent”
• The “Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement”
• The main requirements and processes in the regulations
• The impacts of the regulation on municipalities

Comments CWWA members have compiled which will be submitted to Environment Canada. CWWA welcomes additional feedback from municipalities (send to [email protected]) and encourages direct submissions to Environment Canada. The deadline for response to Environment Canada is May 19, 2010.