This consultation was open from:
August 4, 2026
to September 18, 2026
Decision summary
Approval for the establishment of industrial stormwater management Works in pursuant to Condition 22.2 of the approval # 1333-8W4Q5P of the Nugget Avenue Waste Processing/Transfer Facility, located in the city of Toronto, for the collection, transmission, treatment and disposal of stormwater run-off from a total catchment area of 2.33 hectares.
Location details
Site address
300 Nugget Avenue
Toronto,
ON
Canada
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York1 Nugget Transfer Ltd.
156 Disco Road
Toronto,
ON
M9W 1M4
Canada
Decision details
Approval for the establishment of industrial stormwater management Works in pursuant to Condition 22.2 of the approval # 1333-8W4Q5P of the Nugget Avenue Waste Processing/Transfer Facility, located in the city of Toronto, for the collection, transmission, treatment and disposal of stormwater run-off from a total catchment area of 2.33 hectares, to provide Enhanced Level water quality protection and erosion control, and to attenuate post-development peak flows to 2 year event pre-development flows for all storm events up to and including the 100-year storm event, discharging to municipal storm sewers on Nugget Avenue.
Proposed Works:
- Conveyance and Surface Detention Storage: existing catch basins with 200 millimetres diameter stormsewer leads, and site sewers diameters ranging from 375 millimetres to 600 millimetres, collecting surface run-off from the building roof, grassed and asphalted drainage areas and parking lots having a detention depth of not more then 350 millimetres for more than 2 hours to provide a total 175 cubic metres of storage volume to discharge into manhole MH 2;
- OGS # 1: one oil and grit separator (OGS), Model EF 08 located downstream of MH 2 on the existing 600 millimetres diameter storm sewer to receive run-off from asphalted parking, work lay by and truck movement areas to discharge into existing Duromaxx subsurface detention and infiltration trench System;
- Subsurface Infiltration Trench System with a permanent/ dead storage volume of 63 cubic metres and total storage volume of 230 cubic metres; comprised of a 300 millimetres deep clear stone layer wrapped in non-woven filter fabric complete with an emergency overflow outlet discharging via a 300 millimetres diameter storm sewer to flow into an existing catch basin EXMH 3, on a 600 millimetres diameter sewer connected finally with an existing 900 millimetres diameter Municipal Storm sewer on Nugget Avenue;
- Subsurface Storage (StomTech): a proprietary StormTech MC-4500 in 18 pieces installed in one row, on a base area of 79 square metres with storage volume of 53 cubic metres, comprised of a 230 millimetres deep clear stone layer; complete with an emergency overflow outlet and Inspection/clean-out port; to discharge via a 300 millimetres diameter storm sewer into a NeoPlast manhole, located downstream of the OGS #1;
- All to work with an existing OGS 2: (Stormceptor, Model STC 300): located at EXMH 3, to provide additional polishing quality protection.
Effects of consultation
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How to Appeal
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If you’re an Ontario resident, you can start the process to appeal this instrument decision.
First, you’ll need to seek leave (i.e. get permission) from the relevant appellate body to appeal the decision.
If the appellate body grants leave, the appeal itself will follow.
Seek leave to appeal
To seek leave to appeal, you need to do these three things:
- prepare your application
- provide notice to the minister
- mail your application to three parties
1. Prepare your application
You’ll need to prepare an application. You may wish to include the following things in your application:
- A document that includes:
- your name, phone number, fax number (if any), and/or email address
- the ERO number and ministry reference number (located on this page)
- a statement about whether you are a resident in Ontario
- your interest in the decision, and any facts you want taken into account in deciding whether you have an interest in the decision
- the parts of the instrument that you’re challenging
- whether the decision could result in significant harm to the environment
- the reason(s) why you believe that no reasonable person – having regard to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind – could have made the decision
- the grounds (facts) you’ll be using to appeal
- the outcome you’d like to see
- A copy of the instrument (approval, permit, order) that you you are seeking leave to appeal. You’ll find this in the decision notice on the Environmental Registry
- Copies of all supporting documents, facts and evidence that you’ll be using to appeal
What is considered
The appeal body will consider the following two questions in deciding whether to grant you leave to appeal:
- is there is good reason to believe that no reasonable person, with respect to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind, could have made the decision?
- could the decision you wish to appeal result in significant harm to the environment?
2. Provide your notice
You’ll need to provide notice to the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks that you’re seeking leave to appeal.
In your notice, please include a brief description of the:
- decision that you wish to appeal
- grounds for granting leave to appeal
You can provide notice by email at minister.mecp@ontario.ca or by mail at:
College Park 5th Floor, 777 Bay St.
Toronto, ON
M7A 2J3
3. Mail your application
You’ll need to mail your application that you prepared in step #1 to each of these three parties:
- appellate body
- issuing authority (the ministry official who issued the instrument)
- proponent (the company or individual to whom the instrument was issued)
York1 Nugget Transfer Ltd.
156 Disco Road
Toronto,
ON
M9W 1M4
Canada
Registrar, Ontario Land Tribunal
655 Bay Street, Suite 1500
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1E5
(416) 212-6349
(866) 448-2248
OLT.Registrar@ontario.ca
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Client Services and Permissions Branch
40 St. Clair Avenue West
Floor 2
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1M2
Canada
Original proposal
Proposal details
This application is for an Environmental Compliance Approval (sewage works) for a waste disposal site for the YORK1 Nugget Transfer facility at 300 Nugget Avenue in Toronto, Ontario (Site).
The Site is used for the processing and transfer of the following types of waste: non-hazardous solid waste generated within the residential, industrial, institutional and commercial sectors, received either as source-separated waste or mixed waste, and includes construction and demolition waste, source separated recyclable material that has been collected from residential blue box programs, soil, and rock.
Industrial sewage works serving the Site contain the following components:
- three manholes and sept catch basins
- stormwater sewers connected to a municipal storm sewage system
- a stormwater holding tank
- an oil-water separator.
The proposed site work includes:
- the addition of underground quantity control volume
- an additional oil / grit separator
The main change affecting the site’s stormwater management is a small increase in drainage area at the northwest boundary.
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40 St. Clair Avenue West
Floor 2
Toronto,
ON
M4V 1M2
Canada
Comment
Commenting is now closed.
This consultation was open from August 4, 2026
to September 18, 2026
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40 St. Clair Avenue West
Floor 2
Toronto,
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M4V 1M2
Canada
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