Carlisle Water Storage Facility

The City initiated a Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) in 2012 to evaluate options for improving water service delivery through infrastructure solutions. However, this study was terminated in 2014 to determine whether a 5-year comprehensive water conservation program could eliminate the need for additional water storage in the community. While community efforts were notable, demand was not consistently below the threshold necessary to remove the need for additional water storage. 

As such, the community requires additional potable water storage capacity to meet provincial guidelines for fire flow/storage, increasing demand to provide sustainable and reliable water supply to all existing residents and future population within the settlement area. 

Location: Carlisle

Status: Complete

Classification: Schedule B reclassified to Exempt based on preferred solution

MCEA Process & Schedule Reclassification

The City has completed a new MCEA study that considered infrastructure options to ensure that Carlisle will have a long-term, sustainable water service to meet the current and future needs of the community. The project was originally initiated as a Schedule “B” project in accordance with the MCEA planning process (2023) approved under Ontario’s Environmental Assessment Act. However, the selected preferred solution which is a new larger elevated tank in Tower Park (40-46 Woodend Drive), does not require the acquisition of additional property and has minimal impact on the natural and socio-economic environment. Therefore, the study has been reclassified from Schedule ‘B’ to ‘Exempt’ from the MCEA planning process (2023). 

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