CLI ECA and Form 1

About the CLI ECA Process:

The Consolidated Linear Infrastructure Environmental Compliance Approval (CLI ECA) for the City of Kawartha Lakes streamlines the ECA approval process and gives approval authority to the City from the Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) for all low risk sanitary and stormwater infrastructure ECAs.

The City of Kawartha Lakes ECAs can be viewed at the links below:
ECA for a Municipal Stormwater Management System
ECA for a Municipal Sewage Collection System

When is a CLI ECA process required:

• Changes are on City owned property or land which the City has easement rights:            
• including parks and community centres serving a single parcel of land; and
• excluding industrial, institutional, and commercial land.
• Changing, replacing or extending sanitary sewers and storm sewers, including extensions into new residential development
• Changing, replacing, or adding new sewage pumping stations
• Changing, replacing, or adding new stormwater management facilities (i.e. wet pond, infiltration basins, engineered wetlands)
• Changing, replacing, or adding new manufactured treatment devices (i.e. oil and grit separators)

Note that all development applications must first go through the City’s Development Review Process, regardless of the applicable ECA process. It is required that the CLI ECA application is incorporated into the development design during the City’s Development Review for preliminary screening.

Note changing, replacing, or adding new watermains follows the existing MECP Licensing and Form 1 Process.

Applicable Design Criteria:

The CLI ECA approval process covers most alterations that meet the preauthorized MECP requirements for the entire municipal sewage collection system and stormwater management system owned and operated by the City of Kawartha Lakes. 

Any alterations shall be in accordance with the following Design Criteria in order to be eligible for pre-authorization:

• Appendix ‘A’ of the ECA for a Municipal Stormwater Management System 
• MECP Design Criteria for Sanitary Sewers, Storm Sewers and Forcemains for Alterations Authorized under Environmental Compliance Approval

As well as in accordance with the subsequent Guidelines provided by the City of Kawartha Lakes:

• 2024 Storm and Stormwater Infrastructure Guidelines
• 2024 Sanitary Infrastructure Guidelines

Designs must reflect the most conservative of the standards and guidelines listed above. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that the most up-to-date version of the design standards and guidelines are referenced. Applicants must confirm compliance with all applicable criteria and other conditions of the ECA to confirm other applications are not required.

Applying for a CLI ECA:

The City of Kawartha Lakes CLI ECA Application Form is to be completed by the design engineer including all relevant forms as follows and submitted along with the detailed engineering design submission.

Stormwater

For Storm Sewers, Ditches, and Culverts: Form SW1 

For Stormwater Management Facilities: Form SW2

For Third Pipe Collection Systems: Form SW3 

Please include:

• The City of Kawartha Lakes ECA Number is 141-S701
• Provide specific project information and indicate appropriate supporting documentation
• Provide verification by a Licensed Engineering Practitioner with their PEO license number

Sanitary

For Separate Sewers, Nominally Separate Sewers, and Forcemains Form SS1 

For Components of the Municipal Sewage Collection System: Form SS2 

For Equipment Discharging a Contaminant of Concern to the Atmosphere from Municipal Sewage Collection System: Form A1 

Please include:

• The City of Kawartha Lakes ECA Number is 141-W601
• Provide specific project information and indicate appropriate supporting documentation
• Provide verification by a Licensed Engineering Practitioner with their PEO license number

Applying for a Municipal Watermain Alteration:

The Form 1 – For Record of Watermains Authorized as Future Alteration must be completed by the design engineer and submitted along with the detailed engineering design submission.

Please include:

• The Drinking Water System Specific Drinking Water Works Permit Numbers are as follows:
• Lindsay DWS: 141-220
• Bobcaygeon DWS: 141-205
• Fenelon Falls DWS: 141-203
• *For any other municipal drinking water system, please contact the City to obtain the applicable Drinking Water Works Permit Number.
• Provide specific project information and indicate appropriate supporting documentation, including verification by a Licensed Engineering Practitioner with their PEO license number.

When you do not need to request an alteration:

You don’t need to apply for a CLI ECA alteration for privately owned sewage works on industrial or commercial land. For these projects, you may still need an individual ECA from the MECP, or a building permit.

Fee payments:

There is no longer a requirement for separate payment for the ECA CLI, as the fees have been incorporated into the Council approved Development Application Approval Processing (DAAP) fee, which is now included on the Cost Estimate Templates found at the following links:

Site Plan: Site Plan Cost Estimate Template

Subdivision: 2024 Subdivision Cost Estimate Template

                
Submissions:

The CLI ECA and Form 1 - Record of Watermain shall be submitted along with the detailed engineering design submission. A checklist has been provided on the first page of the CLI ECA application form. Please ensure that all items on the checklist have been completed and that the checklist has been completed and signed by the design engineer.

For more information about the CLI ECA application process, please contact:

Development Engineering Division

705-324-9411 extension 1146