Dockside Marine Inc. - Environmental Compliance Approval (sewage)

This proposal from Dockside Marine Inc. is for an amendment to Environmental Compliance Approval No. 3-0246-80-006 for the proposed sewage works expansion and upgrade serving Northern Harbour Marina that consists of existing 229 docking slips, proposed 372 additional docking slips, comfort stations (washroom and shower facilities), fuel supply, mechanical/repairment service, and boat storage facilities, located at 361 Northern Harbour Road, Township of Kirkup, Ontario.

After the proposed expansion and upgrade, the current sewage works includes a 22,600-litre sewage pump out tank at the dock, a 8580-litre sewage lift station at the dock that pumps to the 13,000-litre sewage lift station (equipped with overflow alarms and a back-up pump system) that transfers all effluent to the sewage treatment lagoon. There are 2 sewage holding tanks on site (at the owner’s residence and at the shop that are pumped out regularly by a licensed sewage hauler (there are no septic tanks/fields on site)).

At present a single cell existing lagoon with a proposed slight height increase thus increasing surface area to 2,063 square metres with an maximum effluent depth of 2.50 meters and resultant capacity of 5157 cubic metres plus a new lagoon cell with a capacity of 3,227 cubic metres and a water depth of 2.50 metres, as well as a pump-out chamber and pipelines for discharge effluent for spray irrigation in a significantly large woodland with a much larger expanse than the required total area of spray circles of 12,720 square meters or 1.3 hectares, that located immediately to the north and west of the present single cell lagoon. (This area has been used for the spray irrigation of the present lagoon for the past 44 years and has ample room for the additional treated effluent to be sprayed).