
Environmental Assessments
An Environmental Assessment or EA is the process of determining what environmental impacts, if any, there will be during a project and how to minimize the impacts. The Ontario Environmental Assessment Act requires Ontario municipalities to complete an EA when undertaking municipal road, water and wastewater projects.
By eliminating or reducing effects on the environment, the municipality can avoid expensive, and sometimes controversial, remedial action once the project has been completed. Over the long term, environmental assessment provides decision makers with the kind of information they need to approve projects that are suitable with a healthy, sustainable environment for both present and future generations.
Types of Environmental Assessments
There are two types of environmental assessment planning and approval processes:
- Individual Environmental Assessments - projects for which a Terms of Reference and an individual environmental assessment are carried out and submitted to the Minister of the Environment for review and approval.
- Class Environmental Assessments – projects that are approved subject to compliance with an approved class environmental assessment process with respect to a class of undertakings, such as roads, water, and wastewater. Typically used by municipalities, including the City of Hamilton.
Class Environmental Assessments
The following EAs are being carried out in accordance with the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment Process that the City of Hamilton must follow under the Ontario Environmental Assessment Act:
Current EAs
- 43 Highway 5 West, Park of Lot 24, Concession 3, Flamborough
- Ainslie Wood Neighbourhood Traffic Management Review
- Ancaster Elevated Water Reservoir
- Barton Street and Fifty Road Improvements
- Binbrook Village Neighbourhood Traffic Management Plan
- Block Servicing Strategies for Stoney Creek and Gordon Dean Class EA
- Carlisle Water Supply
- Cormorant Road Extension
- Dickenson Road (Upper James Street to Glancaster Road)
- Elfrida Subwatershed Study
- Elevated Water Storage Facility and Pumping Station for Pressure District 7
- Garner Road (Wilson Street to Highway 403 Off Ramp)
- Hamilton Transit Bus Maintenance and Storage Facility Design
- Highway 8 Improvements (Fruitland Road to Fifty Road)
- Lynden Communal Water Supply
- Main & Whitney (HD17A) Water Pumping Station
- Mathers Drive Stream & Valley Wall Erosion
- Mid-Spencer Creek/Greensville Rural Settlement Area Subwatershed Study
- Mohawk Road Ramp
- New Waste Haulage Receiving Station
- North End Traffic Management Plan
- Regional Road 56 (Dalgleish Trail to Cemetery Road)
- Rymal Road Planning Area Study (ROPA 9)
- Rymal Road (Upper James Street to Dartnall Road)
- Southcote Road (Garner Road to Golf Links Road)
- Street C (Leavette Blvd) in Southeast Quadrant of Highway 5/6 Interchange
- Twenty Road East & Upper Red Hill Valley Parkway Extensions
- Upper Wellington Street (Limeridge Road East to Stone Church Road East)
- Waterdown Community Node Transportation Management Plan
- Waterdown Trunk Watermain Twinning
- Westdale Neighbourhood Traffic Management Review
-
York & Valley Road (HD016) Booster Pumping Station Capacity Upgrades
Completed EAs
- Birch Avenue (Barton Street to Burlington Street)
- Cherry Beach Shoreline Protection
- Dartnall Road Extension
- Garner/Rymal Road and Garth Street
- Hamilton West Harbour Shoreline and Breakwater
- Highway 5 Grindstone Creek Utility Relocation
- Highway 56 Traffic Study
- King Street West (Dundas) Bridge
- Longwood Road
- Mohawk Road (McNiven Road to Hwy 403)
- Old Dundas Road Sewage Pumping Station (HC005) Emergency Overflow
- Old Dundas Road Sewage Pumping Station (HC005) Wet Weather Relief
- Parkside Drive Improvements
- Piers 5-8 Sewage Pumping Facilities
- Red Hill Industrial Business Park South TMP Addendum
- Regional Official Plan Amendment (ROPA 9) Transportation Master Plan Review
- Rymal Road Improvements (Dartnall Road to the New Trinity Church Corridor)
- Strathcona Transportation Management Plan
- Upper Hannon Creek Master Drainage and Servicing Study
- Waterdown/Aldershot Transportation Master Plan
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