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3. FUNDING FOR BACKWATER
vALVES financement pour les clapets anti-retour |
Committee Recommendation as amended
That Council consider funding
the installation of backwater valves during construction on the same basis
as the existing grant program for backflow preventers within the City.
Recommandation modifiée du Comité
Que le Conseil d’examiner le
financement de l’installation de clapets anti-retour durant la construction selon
les mêmes principes que le programme de subvention actuel concernant les
dispositifs anti-refoulement de la Ville d’Ottawa.
Documentation
1. Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Committee Report dated 22 October 2009 (ACS2009-CCS-ARA-0008).
2. Extract of Draft Minutes, 26 November 2009.
Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee
Comité de l'agriculture et des affaires rurales
22 October 2009 / le 22 octobre 2009
Submitted by / Soumis par : Glenn Brooks, Councillor / Conseiller
Ward / Quartier 21 - Rideau-Goulbourn
Contact Person/Personne ressource : Christopher Zwierzchowski
Coordinator,
Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee
Coordonnateur,
Comité de l’agriculture et des affaires rurales
City
Clerk’s Branch / Direction du greffe
(613)
580-2424, x-21359 Christopher.Zwierzchowski@ottawa.ca
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That the
Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee recommend Council consider funding the
installation of backwater valves during construction.
Que le Comité des de
l’agriculture et des affaires rurales recommande au Conseil d’examiner le
financement de l’installation de clapets anti-retour durant la construction.
At the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee meeting on September 24, 2009, Councillor Brooks put forward a Notice of Motion for consideration at the next meeting:
WHEREAS flooding is a concern of all property owners;
AND WHEREAS the City provides a Protective Plumbing Grant;
AND WHEREAS sewers are being installed in both Hillside Gardens and the
Business Core and of the Village of Manotick;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City consider funding the installation
of sewer backup valves during construction.
The following comments are provided by Infrastructure Services and Community Sustainability Department staff:
There were two conditions in which the City recommends and requires the installation of backwater valves on sanitary sewer laterals. These circumstances include lateral discharges to a combined sewer area, or the residence is in an area prone to flooding. As the Village of Manotick does not meet either of these recommendations, staff does not recommend the installation of backwater valves at the City’s cost throughout the unserviced area of the Manotick community.
As directed by Council on September 2, 2009, the merits of expanding the requirement for the installation of backwater valves on sanitary laterals is under review. Currently, the City’s Sewer Design Guidelines only require the installation of sanitary backwater valves on new connections within the combined sewer area. This review will be completed in Q1 2010. It should be noted that expanding the requirement for backwater valves on sanitary laterals does not imply that the City would fund them as these are part of private plumbing systems.
The City’s Residential Protective Plumbing Program encourages residents that reside in a flood prone area, and that have previously experienced flooding, to apply for a grant to reduce the risk of sewer backup. Given this criteria, the program would not apply to Manotick.
Legal Staff will be available at the meeting to answer any questions.
This report has no financial implications.
Staff will be available at the meeting to answer any questions.
Infrastructure Services and Community Sustainability
Staff shall undertake the direction of Committee.
FUNDING FOR
BACKWATER vALVES
financement pour les clapets anti-retour
ACS2009-CCS-ARA-0008 City Wide / a l’échelle de la ville
At the Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Committee meeting of 24 September 2009, Councillor Brooks put forward the
following Notice of Motion:
WHEREAS flooding is a concern of all property owners;
AND WHEREAS the City provides a Protective Plumbing Grant;
AND WHEREAS sewers are being installed in both Hillside Gardens and the
Business Core and of the Village of Manotick;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City consider funding the installation
of sewer backup valves during construction.
Speaking to Councillor Brooks’
Motion, Councillor Hunter moved that such funding be provided on the same basis
as the existing grant program for backflow preventers within the City. Councillor Brooks concurred with this as a
friendly amendment, and asked staff if the City had a bylaw requiring that
backflow preventers be installed as a part of new construction. It was noted that such installation was
relatively inexpensive at the time of new construction, but became
prohibitively expensive as a retrofit measure afterwards. Mr. Tim Marc, Senior Legal Counsel, City
Solicitor and Clerk’s Department, provided the following information after the
meeting:
“A
backwater valve is required on the stormwater drain for new low rise
residential development. It is required
on the sanitary drain for new construction in the combined sewer area or to a
system with a history of flooding.”
There being no further discussion,
the Committee considered Councillor Brooks’ Motion, as amended by Councillor
Hunter’s addendum.
Moved by G. Hunter
That the Agriculture
and Rural Affairs Committee recommend Council consider funding the installation
of backwater valves during construction on the same basis as the existing
grant program for backflow preventers within the City.
CARRIED
as amended