Would you like to become a qualified professional within the onsite #wastewater #industry? 👩🔧👷 OOWA has added four #NEW webpages to guide your professional journey: https://www.oowa.org/training/. Check out each page here: How to become a qualified designer of onsite sewage systems How to become a qualified and registered onsite sewage system inspector (Building Inspector) How […]
Category: Regulatory
Important Notice: Update to CSA B66 Standard
An important regulatory change for septic tanks has recently come into effect (technically October 2021). Please see the article below from OOWA’s fall newsletter to get details regarding an update to the CSA B66 standard that adds the requirement for a safety screen to tank openings. Don Krauss will be doing a presentation on this […]
OOWA’s new Decentralized Wastewater Systems webpage
Check out newest addition to the website – the intricacies of decentralized onsite and communal wastewater systems explained! […]
Property Owners’ Responsibilities under the Ontario Building Code (OBC)
Rural property owners are also private wastewater management system operators. They don’t have the luxury of flushing and forgetting like their city cousins. This is because the solids that they do flush remain on their property (contained in their septic tank) and the resulting effluent is returned to the soil under their own septic leaching […]
Provincial Construction Shutdown, April 16th, 2021
This past Friday Doug Ford announced another round of provincial restrictions and measures in an attempt to slow the recent spike in COVID 19 cases. This included restrictions on certain types of construction. This round of restrictions has no effect on the design, installation or servicing of septic systems as residential construction activities or projects […]
