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Council adopts municipal-code updates on water services, potable facilities and cross-connections
Summary
Following a noticed public hearing with no speakers, the council unanimously passed an ordinance amending chapters of Title 6 to update water‑service rules, recycled-water protections, potable‑water facility design and backflow/cross‑connection safeguards; the vote was 5–0.
The city clerk read a public‑hearing notice for an ordinance amending multiple sections of the Ontario Municipal Code related to water services: amending Chapter 8B of Title 6, amending Chapter 6C of Title 6 to protect and regulate the recycled water system, adding Chapter 8D to Title 6 concerning design, construction, monitoring, inspection, operation and management of potable water facilities, and adding Chapter 8E to Title 6 pertaining to protection of the city's drinking water system from backflow and cross‑connections. Affidavits of compliance were on file and no written communications or public speakers were present at the hearing.
After the clerk's reading, the council opened and then closed the public hearing and took an electronic vote. The council approved the ordinance by a 5–0 vote. No amendments or substantive discussion were recorded during the hearing; staff indicated notice requirements had been met.
