O. Reg. 326/03: GENERAL - WASTE MANAGEMENT

 

ontario regulation 326/03

made under the

environmental protection act

Made: July 24, 2003
Filed: August 1, 2003
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: August 16, 2003

Amending Reg. 347 of R.R.O. 1990

(General — Waste Management)

1. Regulation 347 of the Revised Regulations of Ontario, 1990 is amended by adding the following section:

14.2 (1) Subject to subsection (3), no person shall cause or permit waste from a portable toilet to be applied to land or otherwise deposited at a site except,

(a) at a waste disposal site that has been issued a certificate of approval or provisional certificate of approval permitting the temporary storage of hauled sewage and from which the hauled sewage is not subsequently removed and disposed of except in accordance with this section;

(b) at a waste disposal site that has been issued a certificate of approval or provisional certificate of approval permitting the disposal of hauled sewage for drying and requiring the dried residue to be periodically removed and disposed of at a waste disposal site approved to accept the dried residue;

(c) at a landfilling site that has been issued a certificate of approval or provisional certificate of approval for the final disposal of hauled sewage;

(d) at a sewage works that has been approved under section 53 of the Ontario Water Resources Act to receive sanitary sewage or hauled sewage; or

(e) at a site that has been issued a certificate of approval or provisional certificate of approval permitting the processing of waste and that processes waste in a manner that ensures that the waste meets all of the following requirements after it has been processed:

(i) the concentration of Escherichia coli (E. coli) in the waste is not more than 2x10⁶ colony forming units per gram of total solids (dry weight),

(ii) the concentration in the waste of each metal listed in the Table to this section is not more than the maximum concentration set out for that metal in the Table,

(iii) the pH value of the waste is not less than 6.0,

(iv) the waste has been passed through a screen and contains no more than 0.5 per cent dry weight of plastic objects and no more than 2 per cent dry weight of other non-biodegradable objects, including, but not limited to, glass and metal objects.

(2) Subsection (1) applies despite anything contained in a certificate of approval or a provisional certificate of approval that was issued before this section comes into force.

(3) No person shall cause or permit waste from a portable toilet to be disposed of at an organic soil conditioning site unless,

(a) the organic soil conditioning site has been issued a certificate of approval or provisional certificate of approval permitting the spreading or application of treated waste from a portable toilet;

(b) the waste has been treated so that the concentration of Escherichia coli (E. coli) is not more than 2x10⁶ colony forming units per gram of total solids (dry weight);

(c) the concentration in the waste of each metal listed in the Table to this section is not more than the maximum concentration set out for that metal in the Table;

(d) the pH value of the treated waste is not less than 6.0; and

(e) the waste has been passed through a screen and contains no more than 0.5 per cent dry weight of plastic objects and no more than 2 per cent dry weight of other non-biodegradable objects, including, but not limited to, glass and metal objects.

TABLE

Item	Metal	Maximum Permissible Concentration (In mg/kg Of Solids, Dry Weight)
1.	Arsenic	170
2.	Cadmium	34
3.	Cobalt	340
4.	Chromium	2,800
5.	Copper	1,700
6.	Mercury	11
7.	Molybdenum	94
8.	Nickel	420
9.	Lead	1,100
10.	Selenium	34
11.	Zinc	4,200

2. This Regulation comes into force 90 days after it is filed.