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Site Servicing

Site Servicing

Water, storm and sanitary servicing designed to local standards from the start, so what goes in for approval is what gets built.

The connection isn’t the hard part. The upgrades that come with it are.

Frontage. A main extension. A downstream upgrade. None of it is in your concept, all of it is in the bylaw, and it usually surfaces after the budget is set. We find it first.

This is for you if:

  • You’re an architect or developer and need the civil package to match the design
  • You have a concept and no idea what servicing it triggers
  • Your DP came back with comments on the servicing drawings and you need a path forward
  • You’re building where municipal services stop and need well or septic scoped

What’s Included

  • Water supply + fire flow
  • Storm drainage + detention
  • Sanitary sewer + capacity
  • Shallow utility coordination
  • Off-site upgrades
  • Servicing reports for rezoning

How It Works

  1. Send us the sitecivic address or legal description, a concept or layout, and your end use.

  2. We build the path forwardwhat the site can carry, what it triggers off-site and what it costs, before you commit.

  3. We carry it throughdesign, utility coordination, permit submission, IFC drawings and construction support.

Let’s find out what your site can service.

Send us the address and what you’re planning to build. We’ll tell you what’s available and what it will trigger.

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Site Servicing Questions

Your permitting stage decides. Rezoning takes a servicing report. Development permits take preliminary drawings. Building permits and subdivisions take an issued-for-construction set. Paying for IFC drawings at rezoning stage means paying to revise them later.

Fire flow that the existing main can’t deliver. Sanitary capacity that’s already committed downstream. Frontage standards attached to your permit. All three sit in the municipal servicing bylaw, not in your concept, which is why they’re found late. We check them at the start.

Fire flow is the volume the hydrants have to deliver during a fire, set by your building’s size, use, and construction type. It’s usually a larger demand than domestic water, so it sizes the main. If the existing main can’t supply it, you’re extending it.

Then we scope well and septic instead. Our septic design is ROWP-certified, and the sizing depends on a percolation test and the daily flow your building generates. It’s worth knowing before you finalize unit count, because septic capacity can cap how much you build.

Yes, from load letter through trench sharing and as-builts. Shallow utilities rarely change a design, but they regularly move a schedule. The handoffs between three utilities and your contractor are where construction programs slip. We coordinate them as part of the project.