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Servicing Plans

Coordinated water, sanitary and storm servicing design.

What a servicing plan covers

A servicing plan is the drawing that shows how your site connects to municipal infrastructure. It covers water, sanitary, and storm.

The plan sets out pipe layout, sizes, materials, and slopes. It fixes connection points at the property line and gives invert elevations at each structure.

Appurtenances are located and labelled. That means valves, hydrants, maintenance holes, catchbasins, and cleanouts.

On park sites the plan also covers irrigation, splash pad, and field house servicing. These connections are easy to miss at the application stage.

The drawing is prepared for site plan control, subdivision, and municipal servicing submissions. It is reviewed and sealed by a licensed Ontario Professional Engineer, as applicable.

The layout has to match the servicing strategy it comes from. It is prepared with the Functional Servicing Report for your application. Where the work extends into the road right-of-way, it carries through to plan and profile drawings.

For more on municipal servicing, read What Information Does a Civil Engineer Need From the Architect? .

When you need a servicing plan and what it includes

When you need one

  • Site plan control submissions
  • Draft plan of subdivision
  • New or upgraded municipal service connections
  • Parks projects with irrigation or building servicing
  • Municipal capital works
  • Building permit where servicing detail is required

What you receive

  • Water, sanitary, and storm layout in plan
  • Pipe sizes, materials, and slopes
  • Connection points at the property line
  • Invert and rim elevations at each structure
  • Valves, hydrants, maintenance holes, and catchbasins
  • Municipal standard detail references
  • A drawing to municipal standards, sealed as applicable

The mismatch reviewers look for

The quickest way to generate a comment was a drawing that disagreed with its own report. An invert on the plan that did not match the figure in the servicing report, or a pipe size that had changed in one place and not the other. Reviewers cross-check the two. When the set is prepared together, that whole category of comment disappears.