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Q-2, r. 22 - Regulation respecting waste water disposal systems for isolated dwellings
Section 3
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3. Prohibitions: No person may discharge into the environment domestic waste water, grey water or toilet effluents from a building or site referred to in section 2, unless the water or effluents are treated or discharged according to any of Divisions III to XV.5 or section 90.1, or treated by a treatment system authorized under the Act.
No person may install, to serve a building or site referred to in section 2, a privy, a compost toilet or a system for the discharge, collection or disposal of domestic waste water, grey water or toilet effluents that does not comply with the standards prescribed by this Regulation, unless the privy, toilet or system has been authorized by the Minister under the Act.
No person may build a building or develop a site referred to in section 2, build an additional bedroom in an isolated dwelling already built, change the use or increase the operating or utilization capacity of a building or site already built or developed if the change or increase serves to increase the total daily flow of domestic waste water beyond the capacity of the system for the discharge, collection or disposal of domestic waste water, grey water or toilet effluents without being in compliance with this Regulation.
No person may rebuild, renovate, modify or move any part of a system without the part being in compliance with this Regulation.
During the reconstruction of a building referred to in section 2 or the redevelopment of a site referred to in that section after a fire or other disaster, the building or site may be connected to the system for the discharge, collection or disposal of domestic waste water, grey water or toilet effluents that served the damaged building or site if the following conditions are met:
(a) the rebuilt isolated dwelling may not contain more bedrooms than the number of bedrooms included in the damaged dwelling;
(b) the operating or utilization capacity of the rebuilt building or redeveloped site may not be greater than the capacity of the damaged building or site;
(c) the municipal by-laws allow such reconstruction or redevelopment;
(d) the system already installed was not prohibited by an Act or regulation in force at the time of its installation.
3. Prohibitions: No person may discharge into the environment waste water, grey water or toilet effluents from a building or site referred to in section 2, unless the water or effluents are treated or discharged according to any of Divisions III to XV.5 or section 90.1, or treated by a treatment system authorized under the Act.
No person may install, to serve a building or site referred to in section 2, a privy, a compost toilet or a system for the discharge, collection or disposal of waste water, grey water or toilet effluents that does not comply with the standards prescribed by this Regulation, unless the privy, toilet or system has been authorized by the Minister under the Act.
No person may build a building or develop a site referred to in section 2, build an additional bedroom in an isolated dwelling already built, change the use or increase the operating or utilization capacity of a building or site already built or developed if the dwelling, building or site concerned is not equipped with a system for the discharge, collection or disposal of waste water, grey water or toilet effluents complying with this Regulation.
During the reconstruction of a building referred to in section 2 or the redevelopment of a site referred to in that section after a fire or other disaster, the building or site may be connected to the system for the discharge, collection or disposal of waste water, grey water or toilet effluents that served the damaged building or site if the following conditions are met:
(a) the rebuilt isolated dwelling may not contain more bedrooms than the number of bedrooms included in the damaged dwelling;
(b) the operating or utilization capacity of the rebuilt building or redeveloped site may not be greater than the capacity of the damaged building or site;
(c) the municipal by-laws allow such reconstruction or redevelopment;
(d) the system already installed was not prohibited by an Act or regulation in force at the time of its installation.
3. Prohibition: No person may discharge or allow the discharge into the environment of effluents from the toilet of an isolated dwelling or of waste water or grey water from an isolated dwelling.
The prohibition in the first paragraph is established within the meaning of the second paragraph of section 20 of the Act.
However, the first two paragraphs do not apply where such effluent is disposed of or discharged into the environment according to the provisions of Divisions III to XI, XV.2 to XV.5 or section 90.1, or where such effluent is purified in another disposal system authorized under section 32 of the Act.
In the case of an existing isolated dwelling or a fishing or hunting camp, waste water, grey water or toilet effluents may, in addition to the possibilities provided for in the third paragraph, be discharged into a system complying with any of Divisions XII, XIII and XIV.
An isolated dwelling rebuilt after a fire or another disaster is considered to be an existing dwelling if its reconstruction is allowed by municipal by-laws and the installation of the dwelling’s system for the discharge, collection or disposal of waste water, toilet effluents or grey water that was destroyed was not prohibited by an Act or a regulation in force at the time the system was installed. However, if a dwelling or another building covered by this paragraph must be connected to one of the installations that complies with Division XII, XIII or XIV, the dwelling may not contain more bedrooms than the dwelling that was destroyed and, in the case of another building, the total daily flow may not be increased.
No person may install waste water, grey water or toilet effluents discharge or disposal systems which are not in conformity with the standards prescribed in this Regulation, to serve an isolated dwelling, except in the case of a sewage system authorized under section 32 of the Act.
No person may build a new isolated dwelling or add a bedroom to an isolated dwelling if the isolated dwelling is not equipped with a system for the discharge, collection or disposal of waste water, toilet effluents or grey water in conformity with this Regulation.
