Sanitary Sewers
The Metro Vancouver Sewer Use Bylaws No. 299 and 244 regulate pollutants that are discharged into sewers and drains. The bylaws protect the environment and human health and safety.
Risk Management Services communicates sewer use bylaw requirements to the UBC community via training and bulletins. Additionally, the UBC Sewer Discharge Monitoring Program ensures compliance with bylaw requirements.
Waste water discharges are sampled twice a year from monitoring points on South West Marine Drive and North West Marine Drive. The samples are tested for organic load, hardness, pH, variety of metals and radioactivity.
The analysis results are compared with the Metro Vancouver Sewer Use Bylaws restrictions and prohibitions to ensure compliance with discharge requirements.
All UBC Vancouver waste water discharges tested so far have been within the regulatory limits.
