Arctic SDI catalogue
Acute lethality test results from wastewater systems subject to the Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulations
The Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulations (WSER), developed under the Fisheries Act, came into force in 2012 to manage wastewater releases by systems that collect an average daily influent volume of 100 cubic metres or more. The WSER also does not apply to any wastewater system located in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and north of the 54th parallel in the provinces of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador. The WSER set national baseline effluent quality standards that are achievable through secondary wastewater treatment.
Under the WSER, owners or operators of wastewater systems discharging annual average daily effluent volumes greater than 2,500 m3 are required to determine and report on the acute lethality of the effluent.
The map below presents the percentage of acute lethality test failures for the wastewater systems in Canada that conducted at least one acute lethality test according to the standards of the Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulations.
The map is available in both ESRI REST (to use with ARC GIS) and WMS (open source) formats. For more information about the individual reporting wastewater systems, datasets are available in either Excel or CSV formats.
Data from Quebec and Yukon
As of 2018, no acute lethality results from Quebec municipalities are available since an equivalency agreement is now in effect. As of 2015, no acute lethality test results for wastewater systems in the Yukon are available as an equivalency agreement in is effect.
More information on the wastewater sector including the regulations, agreements, contacts and resource documents is available at: https://www.canada.ca/wastewater
Simple
- Date ( RI_366 )
- 2022-03-01
- Date ( RI_367 )
- 2022-03-01
819-420-7384
https://www.canada.ca/wastewater
- Hours of service
- 08:30am - 4:30pm ET
- Status
- onGoing; enContinue RI_596
- Maintenance and update frequency
- annually; annuel RI_539
- Keywords ( RI_528 )
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- Statutory Instrument
- wastewater
- water
- discharge
- effluent
- sewage
- ERRIS
- WSER
- acute lethality
- monitoring
- reporting
- treatment
- Fisheries Act
- deleterious substances
- water pollution
- water quality
- Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
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- Waste water
- Regulations
- Business Functions Fonctions de l'entreprise ( RI_528 )
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- Assess Toxicity, Manage and Monitor for Environmental Presence of Hazardous Substances and Waste
- Plan and Implement Monitoring Infrastructure to Assess Presence and Levels of Substances of Concern
- Geography Portée Géographique ( Place )
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- National (CA)
- external.theme.EC_Branch local.theme.external.theme.EC_Branch ( RI_528 )
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- Environmental Protection Branch
- external.theme.EC_Directorate local.theme.external.theme.EC_Directorate ( RI_528 )
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- Industrial Sectors and Chemicals Directorate
- external.theme.EC_Program_PAA local.theme.external.theme.EC_Program_PAA ( RI_528 )
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- 3.1.2. Effluent Management
- external.theme.GC_Security_Level local.theme.external.theme.GC_Security_Level ( RI_528 )
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- Unclassified
- Use limitation
- Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
- Access constraints
- license; licence RI_606
- Use constraints
- license; licence RI_606
- Spatial representation type
- textTable; texteTable RI_637
- Metadata language
- eng
- Metadata language
- fra
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 2013-01-01
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- Supplemental Information
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Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) developed the Effluent Regulatory Reporting Information System for the owners of wastewater systems subject to the WSER to submit identification reports, on-going effluent monitoring reports, combined sewer overflow reports as well as transitional and temporary authorization applications. The reports are submitted to ECCC to assess compliance with the national effluent quality standards for carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demanding matter and suspended solids. Certain regulatees are also required to submit the results of acute lethality testing.
More information on the wastewater sector including the regulations, agreements, contacts and resource documents is available at: https://www.canada.ca/wastewater
Supporting Projects: wastewater, regulations
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / EPSG:4326 /
- Distribution format
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ESRI REST
(
2016
)
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WMS
(
2016
)
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ESRI REST
(
2016
)
http://ec.gc.ca
- OnLine resource
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Percentage of test failures
(
ESRI REST: Map Service
)
Web Service;ESRI REST;eng
- OnLine resource
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Percentage of test failures
(
ESRI REST: Map Service
)
Web Service;ESRI REST;fra
- OnLine resource
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Acute lethality
(
HTTPS
)
Web Service;ESRI REST;eng
- OnLine resource
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Acute lethality
(
HTTPS
)
Web Service;ESRI REST;fra
- OnLine resource
-
Acute lethality
(
HTTPS
)
Web Service;WMS;eng
- OnLine resource
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Acute lethality
(
HTTPS
)
Web Service;WMS;fra
- OnLine resource
-
Resaeu-Wser-aigue-acute.csv
(
HTTPS
)
Dataset;CSV;eng,fra
- OnLine resource
-
Resaeu-Wser-aigue-acute.xlsx
(
HTTPS
)
Dataset;XLS;eng,fra
- File identifier
- 471736af-e236-444a-9888-b4d99052c927 XML
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Parent identifier
- 7464033d-04b7-4ce3-b8d5-dd8786e06462 7464033d-04b7-4ce3-b8d5-dd8786e06462
- Hierarchy level
- series; série RI_623
- Date stamp
- 2023-11-02T18:18:00
- Metadata standard name
- North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- Enviroment Canada - Version 1
http://ec.gc.ca
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