Sewers and Water Supply By-laws 2018 Compliance and Enforcement Annual Report and Report on the Lavender Creek Water Quality Assessment

In 2018, EM&P performed 3,256 tasks, such as company inspections, dye tests, meetings with businesses, storm sewer outfall inspections under the Sewers By-law and 857 inspections under the Water Supply By-law. The staff performed 3,322 sampling events, which resulted in 28,113 laboratory analyses. A total of 664 Notices of Violation were issued for non-compliance under the Sewers By-law and 19 issued for non-compliance under the Water Supply By-law. In 2018, cases involving 78 companies moved forward to prosecution for both the Sewers and Water Supply By-laws. Under the Sewers By-law, there were 35 convictions resulting in $274,500 in fines and under the Water Supply By-law, 7 convictions resulting in $36,000 in fines, totalling 42 convictions with $310,500 in fines for 2018 (convictions may include prosecution files started in previous years). This total does not include the Victim Fine Surcharge (which is collected and retained by the Ontario Provincial Government for victims of crime - for fines over $1,000; the surcharge is 25 percent of the fine). The remaining prosecution files are still before the courts. The number of Industrial Waste Surcharge Agreements entered into with businesses increased in 2018 and the total cost recovery for Toronto Water under this program was $9.6 million. Similarly, the total number of Sanitary Discharge Agreements increased, and there was a total cost recovery of $6.5 million. In 2018, the Outfall Monitoring Program identified 20 new cross connections (arising from sanitary wastewater misdirected to a storm sewer) and verified the correction of 17 cross connections (some were carried over from previous years). Nine (9) Priority Outfalls within Toronto's watersheds were delisted, thereby seeing an improvement in water quality at those outfalls and receiving waters.