Invitation for Comment for the Lake Ontario Monitoring System Project at Whitby Water Supply Plant

Transport Canada’s Navigation Protection Program (NPP) administers the “Canadian Navigable Waters Act” (CNWA) which helps keep Canada’s navigable waters open for transport and recreation. In accordance with requirements of the Canadian Navigable Waters Act, the Regional Municipality of Durham hereby gives notice that an application has been submitted to the Minister of Transport for the below work(s):

Registry Number: 13328
NPP File Number: 2025-415269
Project Description: Durham Region is undergoing detail design and environmental permitting for the Lake Ontario Monitoring System (LOMS) Project, which involves the installation of specialized equipment at the intake of the Whitby Water Supply Plant (WSP).
Worksite Location: 

• Waterway: Lake Ontario
• Geographic coordinates: 43.837501 degrees north, -78.921669 degrees west

How to comment:

Comments about the potential effect of this work must be received in writing within 30 days of this posting.

We invite you to submit comments online through the online Common Project Search site (https://common-project-search.canada.ca/). To do so, enter the registry number or the NPP file number indicated above in the search box, select the corresponding result, and follow the instructions. Alternatively, comments can be mailed or emailed to:

Transport Canada - Navigation Protection Program (NPP)
100 South Front Street, 1st Floor
Sarnia, ON
N7T 2M4
NPPONT-PPNONT@tc.gc.ca

Please include the NPP file number 2025-415269 in any mailed or emailed correspondence.

Please note: 

• Comments will only be considered if they are in writing (electronic or mail) and received by the deadline. The Navigation Protection Program may communicate with you to obtain additional information on your comments.
• Transport Canada does not publish comments submitted through the Common Project Search site or mailed to the Navigation Protection Program (for more information refer to https://nwarrlen.tc.canada.ca/privacy-confidentialite).
• However, comments submitted online or by mail are considered public record. As such, they are subject to the Privacy Act and the Access to Information Act and are accessible through Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) requests. This means the information you provide should not contain confidential or sensitive information since it could be disclosed (for more information refer to https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/access-information privacy/accessinformation/request-information.html). 

Please visit durham.ca/WhitbyWSPProject for the PDF version of this public notice.