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Document ID ca-wasuca-2025-11-03 Title Water Survey of Canada URL unknown Jurisdiction /ca Subdomain(s) none Language Status completed Analyzed at 2026-05-13 15:00:27.485720+00:00 Relevance inventory_targeted_fetch

11 Qualitative 0 Quantitative 77 Definitions

Q Qualitative Requirements (11)

Req ID	Category	Intent	Legal Status	Name	Subdomain(s)	Context	Conditions	Confidence
#Q001	administrative	operational	unknown	WSC Responsibility for Water Resource Data	other	The Water Survey of Canada (WSC) is the national authority responsible for the collection, interpretation and dissemination of standardized water resource data and information in Canada.		low
#Q002	monitoring	operational	mandatory	Effluent Monitoring and Reporting	wastewater	The owners or operators of wastewater systems must monitor and report the quality of their effluent to show that they are meeting the standards.	Applicable to systems collecting an average daily volume of 100 m3 or more of influent and depositing to water frequented by fish.	high
#Q003	prohibition	health	mandatory	Acute Lethality Prohibition	wastewater, aquatic life	The effluent also cannot be acutely lethal.		high
#Q004	reporting	reporting	mandatory	Identification Report Submission	wastewater	Owners or operators of wastewater systems must submit an identification report within 45 days after their system comes into operation.	Within 45 days of operation	high
#Q005	reporting	reporting	mandatory	Identification Report Updates	wastewater	Any changes or new information on the wastewater system must be submitted within 45 days of the change.	Within 45 days of change	high
#Q006	reporting	reporting	mandatory	Regular Monitoring Report Submission	wastewater	Owners and operators must submit monitoring reports regularly.	Reported either once a year or four times a year depending on system type and size.	high
#Q007	reporting	reporting	mandatory	Combined Sewer Overflow Reporting Requirements	wastewater	Owners or operators of wastewater systems with at least one combined sewer overflow point are required to report for each month where a deposit occured: the number of days that effluent was released via each overflow point [and] the volume of effluent deposited from each overflow point	System must have at least one combined sewer overflow point.	high
#Q008	reporting	reporting	mandatory	Combined Sewer Overflow Report Deadline	wastewater	Owners and operators must submit the combined sewer overflow report once per year by February 15.		high
#Q009	reporting	reporting	mandatory	Quarterly Monitoring Report Deadlines	wastewater	For owners or operators of wastewater systems that report four times a year, the deadlines are: Quarter 1 (January 1 to March 31) - May 15; Quarter 2 (April 1 to June 30) - August 14; Quarter 3 (July 1 to September 30) - November 14; Quarter 4 (October 1 to December 31) - February 14	Applicable to owners or operators of wastewater systems that report four times a year	high
#Q010	reporting	reporting	mandatory	Annual Monitoring Report Deadline	wastewater	For wastewater systems that report once a year, the deadline is: Annual (January 1 to December 31) - February 14	Applicable to systems that report once a year	high
#Q011	administrative	operational	guidance	Authorization Application Procedure	wastewater	You can apply for an authorization through the online reporting system.	When applying for transitional, temporary bypass, or temporary un-ionized ammonia authorizations	high

P Quantitative Requirements (0)

No quantitative requirements.

D Definitions (77)

Req ID	Name	Context	Confidence
#D001	AIDS	acquired immunodeficiency syndrome	high
#D002	AK	Acanthamoeba keratitis	high
#D003	ANSI	American National Standards Institute	high
#D004	ASHRAE	American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers	high
#D005	CDC	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	high
#D006	CFU	colony forming units	high
#D007	CT	concentration (C) × time (T)	high
#D008	DAEC	diffuse adherent Escherichia coli	high
#D009	DNA	deoxyribonucleic acid	high
#D010	EAEC	enteroaggregative Escherichia coli	high
#D011	E. coli	Escherichia coli	high
#D012	EHEC	enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli	high
#D013	EIEC	enteroinvasive Escherichia coli	high
#D014	EPEC	enteropathogenic Escherichia coli	high
#D015	ESBL	extended spectrum β-lactamase	high
#D016	ETEC	enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli	high
#D017	EU	European Union	high
#D018	GAC	granulated activated carbon	high
#D019	GAE	granulomatous amoebic encephalitis	high
#D020	HIV	human immunodeficiency virus	high
#D021	HPC	heterotrophic plate count	high
#D022	HUS	hemolytic uremic syndrome	high
#D023	HVAC	heating, ventilation and air conditioning	high
#D024	IARC	International Agency for Research on Cancer	high
#D025	ISO	International Organization for Standardization	high
#D026	NASEM	National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine	high
#D027	NPC	National Plumbing Code (Canada)	high
#D028	NSF	NSF International	high
#D029	NTM	non-tuberculous mycobacteria	high
#D030	PAM	primary amebic meningoencephalitis	high
#D031	PCR	polymerase chain reaction	high
#D032	PHAC	Public Health Agency of Canada	high
#D033	POE	point-of-entry	high
#D034	POU	point-of-use	high
#D035	QMRA	quantitative microbial risk assessment	high
#D036	SCC	Standards Council of Canada	high
#D037	spp.	species	high
#D038	US EPA	United States Environmental Protection Agency	high
#D039	U.S.	United States	high
#D040	UV	ultraviolet	high
#D041	VBNC	viable but non-culturable	high
#D042	VTEC	verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli	high
#D043	WHO	World Health Organization	high
#D044	legionellosis	Illnesses caused by Legionella spp. are collectively known as legionellosis.	high
#D045	yersiniosis	Disease caused by Y. enterocolitica or Y. paratuberculosis is commonly referred to as yersiniosis.	high
#D046	IT	intensity measured in mW/cm2 or W/m 2× time measured in seconds resulting in a computed fluence in mJ/cm2	high
#D047	shigellosis	disease caused by Shigella spp.	high
#D048	enteric fever	an invasive and systemic disease which involves high fever, vomiting, headaches and numerous potentially fatal complications (also known as typhoid or paratyphoid fever)	high
#D049	non-tuberculous mycobacteria	a group of over 150 distinct species that are considered to be opportunistic human pathogens	high
#D050	opportunistic pathogens	microorganisms naturally found in aquatic environments that can cause opportunistic infections when the conditions in engineered water systems allow them to multiply and spread primarily to individuals who are susceptible to infection	high
#D051	Pontiac fever	a milder, flu-like, self-limiting and non-pneumonic disease associated with exposure to Legionella	high
#D052	Legionnaires’ disease	a severe respiratory illness involving pneumonia, with symptoms that include fever, cough, chills, neurological aspects (confusion), muscle pain, headache and gastrointestinal problems (diarrhea, nausea, vomiting)	high
#D053	hypersensitivity pneumonitis	a form of pulmonary illness where inflammation within the lung is attributable to the body’s immune response to mycobacterial antigens	high
#D054	Cervical lymphadenitis	a disease of childhood, marked by swollen lymph nodes in the head or neck	high
#D055	PFGE	Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis	high
#D056	SBT	sequence-based typing	high
#D057	MAC	Mycobacterium avium complex	high
#D058	subacute cases of diarrhea	cases of diarrhea lasting from two weeks to two months	high
#D059	chronic cases of diarrhea	cases of diarrhea that persist for periods longer than two months	high
#D060	planktonic	freely floating (microorganisms)	high
#D061	rapid growers	Mycobacterium species categorized based on the time required to produce colonies on growth media	high
#D062	slow growers	Mycobacterium species categorized based on the time required to produce colonies on growth media	high
#D063	guidance documents	documents developed to provide operational or management guidance related to specific drinking water–related issues in order to make health risk assessment information available when a guideline value is not deemed necessary	high
#D064	shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli	a subset of E. coli that can produce one or more of the potent Shiga toxins and are considered to be highly pathogenic to humans; a synonym for enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC)	high
#D065	trophozoite	a feeding (and sometimes infectious) life stage of free-living amoebae	high
#D066	cyst	a resistant life stage of free-living amoebae that can withstand environmental stress (such as desiccation and temperature extremes) and provides resistance to disinfection	high
#D067	flagellate stage	an intermediate phase in the life cycle of Naegleria fowleri	high
#D068	biotypes	variations within a species (such as Yersinia enterocolitica) differentiated by physiochemical and biochemical tests	high
#D069	serotypes	variations within a species identified based on variations in their surface O antigens (or O and H antigens)	high
#D070	zoonotic pathogens	transmitted from animals to humans	high
#D071	microaerophilic	require lower oxygen levels	high
#D072	acidophilic	acid-loving	high
#D073	thermotolerant	can survive at high temperatures, between 55 and 70°C	high
#D074	thermophilic	grow well at 25-40°C (optimum: 37°C) and can tolerate temperatures exceeding 50-60°C	high
#D075	hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)	results in decreased blood cell and platelet counts and acute kidney failure	high
#D076	granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE)	a fatal disease which occurs when infection spreads to the brain and central nervous system	high
#D077	primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM)	a rare but almost always fatal disease	high