Salt Spring Island OCP Bylaw No. 434 - Waste Management Objectives and Policies

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Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee         86                                                                  Otober 2020 
Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 434 – Volume 1 (Consolidated) 
 
C.4 WASTE MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES 
 
Background Note:   Map 7 shows the island's existing waste management facilities. 
 
C.4.1 General Waste Management Objectives 
 
C.4.1.1 OBJECTIVES 
 
C.4.1.1.1 To accommodate  the  facilities  and services  that  provide  Salt  Spring  Island  with  necessary 
collection,  processing,  treatment,  transfer,  separation,  recycling,  reuse  or  disposal  of  domestic 
solid and liquid wastes generated by the island’s residents and visitors, while minimizing the 
impacts on neighbourhoods, community health and the island’s environment, and, where solid 
waste is transported off the island for disposal, on the intended receiving environment as well. 
 
C.4.1.1.2 To  support  the  reduction,  diversion,  reuse  and  recycling  of  domestic  waste  materials  generated 
by the island on the island. 
 
C.4.1.1.3 To  support  strategies  that  promote  more  integrated  management  of  liquid  and  solid  waste 
disposal initiatives and to develop land use policies that support these initiatives where possible. 
 
C.4.2 Liquid Waste Management 
 
C.4.2.1 OBJECTIVES 
 
C.4.2.1.1 To accommodate facilities and services necessary to ensure the island’s liquid waste,  whether 
from residential or business on-site, community or private sewer system, is collected and treated 
on island, while minimizing the impact of the facilities or services on neighbourhoods, community 
health and the environment.   
 
C.4.2.1.2 To ensure that zoning changes within the boundaries of any community sewer area do not result 
in such a level of development that sewer collection, treatment or disposal capacity of the area is 
or will be exceeded when the area is fully developed.   
 
C.4.2.1.3 To encourage the operators of liquid waste systems to consider and implement strategies which 
support  beneficial  reuse  of  waste  energy  and  waste  products,  including  creating  and  making 
available  reclaimed  water  from  wastewater  treatment  facilities  and  compost  from  sewage and 
septage sludge. 
 
C.4.2.2 POLICIES - COMMUNITY LIQUID WASTE PROCESSING AND SEWER 
SERVICE AREAS 
 
C.4.2.2.1 The Local Trust Committee continues to support the on-island processing and treatment of liquid 
waste (septic tank septage and sludge from sewage treatment plants as approved by residents in 
the referendum of 1993), at the CRD facility located near Burgoyne Bay, such as the following: 
 
 a. Receipt  of  liquid  waste  materials  pumped  from  septic  tanks  and  other  waste  holding  tanks, 
waste  sewage  sludge  from  wastewater  treatment  plants,  and  receiving  of  screenings  and 
other waste removed from sanitary sewer systems for purposes of further processing. 
 b. Receipt  and  interim  storage  of  green  wood  necessary for suc

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