ontario regulation 256/05

made under the

safe drinking water act, 2002

Made: June 1, 2005
Filed: June 3, 2005
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: June 18, 2005

Amending O. Reg. 128/04

(Certification of Drinking-Water System Operators and Water Quality Analysts)

1. (1) The definition of “distribution and supply subsystem” in subsection 1 (1) of Ontario Regulation 128/04 is amended by striking out “a type of municipal residential drinking-water system” and substituting “a type of municipal residential system”.

(2) The definition of “distribution subsystem” in subsection 1 (1) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

“distribution subsystem” means a type of municipal residential system that is used to supply or distribute water, but does not include that part of the system that collects, produces or treats water;

(3) The definition of “limited groundwater subsystem” in subsection 1 (1) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

“limited groundwater subsystem” means a type of limited system where the raw water is groundwater, but does not include,

(a) a limited system to which Ontario Regulation 170/03 (Drinking-Water Systems) applies, if the system is deemed, under section 2 of that regulation, to be a drinking-water system that obtains water from a raw water supply that is surface water, or

(b) a limited system to which section 7 of Ontario Regulation 252/05 (Non-Residential and Non-Municipal Seasonal Residential Systems that Do Not Serve Designated Facilities) applies, if the system would be deemed, if section 2 of Ontario Regulation 170/03 (Drinking-Water Systems) applied to the limited system, to be a drinking-water system that obtains water from a raw water supply that is surface water;

(4) The definition of “limited surface water subsystem” in subsection 1 (1) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

“limited surface water subsystem” means a type of limited system where,

(a) the raw water supply is surface water,

(b) Ontario Regulation 170/03 (Drinking-Water Systems) applies to the limited system and the limited system is deemed, under section 2 of that regulation, to be a drinking-water system that obtains water from a raw water supply that is surface water, or

(c) section 7 of Ontario Regulation 252/05 (Non-Residential and Non-Municipal Seasonal Residential Systems that Do Not Serve Designated Facilities) applies to the limited system and the limited system would be deemed, if section 2 of Ontario Regulation 170/03 (Drinking-Water Systems) applied to the limited system, to be a drinking-water system that obtains water from a raw water supply that is surface water;

(5) The definition of “limited system” in subsection 1 (1) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

“limited system” means a drinking-water system that is,

(a) a small municipal residential system, as defined in Ontario Regulation 170/03 (Drinking-Water Systems), if the raw water supply is groundwater, unless the groundwater is deemed to be surface water under section 2 of that regulation,

(b) a non-municipal year-round residential system as defined in Ontario Regulation 170/03 (Drinking-Water Systems), or

(c) a large municipal non-residential system or large non-municipal non-residential system, as defined in Ontario Regulation 170/03 (Drinking-Water Systems), if,

(i) Ontario Regulation 170/03 applies to the system, or

(ii) section 7 of Ontario Regulation 252/05 (Non-Residential and Non-Municipal Seasonal Residential Systems that Do Not Serve Designated Facilities) applies to the system;

(6) The definition of “water treatment subsystem” in subsection 1 (1) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

“water treatment subsystem” means a type of a municipal residential system that collects, produces or treats water but does not include that part of the system that is a distribution subsystem or distribution and supply subsystem.