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Sewer Capacity Assessment Guidelines

Published by City of Toronto — Toronto Water under Pre Application Consultation

Applies to
designer
Work types
site servicing · development application
Document date
July 2021

The first edition of the City of Toronto's guidelines for assessing sanitary and combined sewer capacity for a development, issued by Toronto Water's Water Infrastructure Management in July 2021. It sets out guiding principles, the assessment process for sanitary and for combined sewers, the capacity criteria and their exceptions, then procedural guidance on onsite discharge investigation, hydraulic grade line analysis under design flow and under extreme wet weather flow, and the mitigation measures for each. Appendix A carries the protocol for flow monitoring and inflow and infiltration estimation.

What it covers

  • 1.0 Introduction
  • 1.1 Purpose
  • 1.2 Objectives
  • 1.3 Limitations
  • 2.0 Capacity Assessment
  • 2.1 Guiding Principles
  • 2.1 Assessment Process
  • 2.2 Capacity Criteria
  • 2.3 Criteria Exceptions
  • 3.0 Procedural Guidelines
  • 3.1 Onsite Discharge Investigation
  • 3.2 HGL Analysis – Design Flow
  • 3.3 Design Flow Mitigation Measures
  • 3.4 HGL Analysis – Extreme WWF
  • 3.5 WWF Mitigation Measures
  • Appendix A – Protocol for Flow Monitoring and I&I Estimation
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Publisher
City of Toronto — Toronto Water
Category
Study requirements
Published under
Pre Application Consultation — the municipality's own heading
Agencies
City of Toronto Toronto Water · Water Infrastructure Management
Covers note
The two sections numbered 2.1 are the document's own numbering, kept as printed.
Tags
guidelinesewerscapacity-assessmentwet-weather-flowmunicipal-servicing
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