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Development Application Guidelines: Chloride Impact Study
Published by City of Hamilton
This is the City of Hamilton’s document, as published on its website on 19 October 2026. The municipality may have changed it since: check the current version at the source. Legal notice
- Type
- Guide
- Published by
- City of Hamilton
- Date
- February 13, 2026
- Also called
- Chloride Impact Study
- For
- designer
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 5
- Agencies
- Grand River Conservation Authority
Overview
Hamilton's Development Application Guidelines for a Chloride Impact Study, last updated February 13, 2026, for development in a Wellhead Protection Area, a Highly Vulnerable Aquifer or an area with a chloride or sodium issue. The study assesses whether road salt from winter de-icing of a development's roads and parking lots would affect groundwater under the MECP's Reasonable Use Concept. It sets out the Hydrogeological Assessment, assumed chloride rates, the Reasonable Use Concept calculation, and Reporting and Recommendations. Source Water Protection and the Grand River Conservation Authority review it.
What it covers
- Purpose
- Prepared By
- Contents
- Hydrogeological Assessment
- Chloride Impact Study
- Assumptions
- Chloride Application Rates
- Chloride Infiltration Rate
- Reasonable Use Concept
- Reporting and Recommendations
- Other Information
- Reviewed and Approved By
- Contact
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