Municipal Wastewater Regulation (formally Municipal Sewage Regulation) and Amendments
The Municipal Sewage Regulation was developed by the ministry to provide clear and effective requirements for local governments and private sewage dischargers in order to protect public health and the environment. The regulation was approved on April 23, 1999 and became effective July 15, 1999. Amendments were made to the regulation in April of 2006 (PDF/204 KB), October of 2006 (PDF/108 KB), October of 2007 (PDF/118 KB) and October of 2009 (PDF/42 KB).
In April of 2012 (PDF/2.25 MB) the Municipal Sewage Regulation has been repealed and replaced with the Municipal Wastewater Regulation. More information on this change will be posted shortly.
Compliance with the regulation provides authorization (with minimum standards and requirements) for the treatment, reuse and discharge of domestic sewage, wastewater or municipal liquid waste.
The Municipal Wastewater Regulation applies to all discharges of domestic sewage except those regulated under the Sewerage System Regulation (under the Public Health Act) and those discharges from individual single-family or duplex dwellings. The Sewerage System Regulation generally applies to smaller domestic sewer systems (for more information about this regulation, see Overview of the Sewerage System Regulation.
The Ministry of Environment intends to review and potentially revise the Municipal Wastewater Regulation of the Environmental Management Act (EMA). For an update on this review and any upcoming consultation on this review visit http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/epd/codes/msr/mun_sew_reg.htm.
A hard copy of the repealed regulation is available from Crown Publications Inc. and an electronic version is available at Municipal Sewage Regulation.
Last Modified on April 27, 2012
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