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Development Application Guidelines: Master Drainage Plan
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
- Master Drainage Plan
- For
- designer
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 55
- Agencies
- Hamilton Conservation Authority · Conservation Halton · Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority · Grand River Conservation Authority
Overview
Hamilton's Development Application Guidelines for a Master Drainage Plan, last updated February 13, 2026, the technical plan for a community's current and future drainage needs. It runs in three stages, Subwatershed Characterization, Subwatershed Management Strategies, and Implementation and Monitoring Plans, with studies of hydrology and hydraulics, hydrogeology, stream morphology, channel erosion, aquatic and terrestrial environments and surface water quality. Appendices A to F cover data collection, hydrology and hydrogeology plans, tractive force analysis, benthic sampling and stormwater criteria, with a summary checklist.
What it covers
- Purpose
- Prepared By
- Contents
- Stage 1: Subwatershed Characterization
- Hydrology and Hydraulics
- Hydrogeology
- Stream Morphology
- Channel Erosion
- Aquatic Environment
- Terrestrial Environment
- Surface Water Quality
- Stage 2: Subwatershed Management Strategies
- Development of Stormwater Management Strategy
- Stage 3: Implementation and Monitoring Plans
- Other Information
- Reviewed and Approved By
- Contact
- Appendices Attached
- Suggested Data Collection Requirements
- Proposed Hydrology Plan
- Proposed Hydrogeological Plan
- Tractive Force Analysis
- Proposed Protocol to Sample Benthic Invertebrates
- General Criteria for Stormwater Management
- Master Drainage Plan – Summary Checklist
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