Chemicals Management Plan Wastewater Monitoring Program

In 2006, the Government of Canada initiated the Chemicals Management Plan (CMP), which takes action regarding chemicals that are harmful to human health or the environment. One element of the CMP is Monitoring and Surveillance, which generates data on the presence and levels of chemical substances in environmental matrices. These data are used to make decisions regarding the best approach to protect Canadians and their environment from risks these substances might pose.


In support of the CMP, a wastewater monitoring program was initiated in 2009 to generate data on priority substances that may be released to the environment. The wastewater sector has been identified as an important release point to the environment for certain CMP substances. The purpose of the wastewater monitoring program is to gather information from representative municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) across Canada to determine the levels of selected chemical substances entering WWTPs, the fate of these substances through typical wastewater and sludge treatment processes (primary treatment, activated sludge treatment, lagoon treatment, etc.) at warm and cold process temperatures, and the levels of these substances being discharged in WWTP effluents and solids residuals. The participation of various WWTPs in this program is done on a voluntary and anonymous basis, and sampling commences once a Collaboration Arrangement has been signed by the Municipality and Environment and Climate Change Canada. The results from this monitoring project are used to improve our understanding of the fate of chemical substances during wastewater treatment and to determine if control measures are needed to prevent these substances from entering municipal wastewater systems.

Basic view

Metadata Record Information

File Identifier
ae045f5b-a34b-45ea-8835-0c6c20721383 XML
Date Stamp
2024-06-07T13:33:16.568Z
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy Level
Series
Author
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Public inquiries centre )
Fontaine Building 12th floor, 200 Sacré-Coeur Blvd , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H3 , Canada
1-800-668-6767
https://canada.ca
 

Data identification

Date (Publication)
2019-03-27
Date (Creation)
2006-12-08
Status
On going
Metadata language

eng; CAN, fr; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Unknown
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Point of contact
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Science and Technology/Science and Risk Assessment Directorate/Emerging Priorites Division - Shirley Anne Smyth ( Engineer )
867 Lakeshore Rd , Burlington , Ontario , L7S 1A1 , Canada
905 336-4509
905 336-6420

Keywords

Theme

  • Wastewater

  • Sludge

  • Biosolids

  • Treatment

  • Raw influent

  • Primary effluent

  • Final effluent

  • Primary treatment

  • Secondary treatment

  • Tertiary treatment

  • Advanced treatment

  • Trace contaminants

  • All applicable data content

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

  • Waste water

ECCC Information Category EN

  • Pollution and Waste

Business Functions

  • Monitor / Assess Substance and Waste Levels in Air, Water, Soil, Biota

  • Assess Toxicity, Manage and Monitor for Environmental Presence of Hazardous Substances and Waste

Geography

  • National (CA)

external.theme.EC_Branch

  • Science and Technology Branch

external.theme.EC_Directorate

  • Science and Risk Assessment

external.theme.EC_Program_PAA

  • 3.1.1. Substances Management

external.theme.GC_Security_Level

  • Unclassified
 
Use Limitation

Open Government Licence - Canada ( http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada )

Access Constraints
License
Use Constraints
License
Begin Date
2009-04-01

Extent

N
S
E
W
thumbnail


 
 

Ref. system Reference Systems

Reference system identifier
https://epsg.io / EPSG:4326 /
 

Distribution

Distribution Formats

Distribution format
  • CSV ( N/A )

 
Distributor
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Public inquiries centre )
Fontaine Building 12th floor, 200 Sacré-Coeur Blvd , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H3 , Canada
1-800-668-6767
https://canada.ca
 
 

Overviews

N
S
E
W
thumbnail


Keywords

Advanced treatment All applicable data content Biosolids Final effluent Primary effluent Primary treatment Raw influent Secondary treatment Sludge Tertiary treatment Trace contaminants Treatment Wastewater
Business Functions
Assess Toxicity, Manage and Monitor for Environmental Presence of Hazardous Substances and Waste Monitor / Assess Substance and Waste Levels in Air, Water, Soil, Biota
ECCC Information Category EN
Pollution and Waste
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
Waste water
external.theme.EC_Branch
Science and Technology Branch
external.theme.EC_Directorate
Science and Risk Assessment
external.theme.EC_Program_PAA
3.1.1. Substances Management
external.theme.GC_Security_Level
Unclassified

Provided by

Share on social sites

Associated resources

Not available