Use case 02
Every type of requirement, tracked its own way
A discharge limit isn't tracked like an annual report, nor like a notice that must be given immediately. Enviro pairs each requirement with the tracking mechanism that suits it, from compliance calculation to the register, and keeps proof of what was done.
Today
A mine's requirements come from many sources:
- the Environment Quality Act and its regulations on water, air and hazardous materials;
- Directive 019;
- the federal Metal and Diamond Mining Effluent Regulations and the Fisheries Act;
- the Mining Act;
- commitments made to the community.
Each has its own vocabulary, frequencies and deadlines, and the same team often feeds more than five different government filing systems. The skills are there. What's missing is a way to track each requirement according to its nature, without multiplying tools.
Different natures
A limit value is calculated, sampling is scheduled, a notice is triggered, a register is kept, a study is submitted on a set date. Managing them all in the same spreadsheet means watching everything by hand.
One result, several rules
Directive 019 expresses its limits as extractable metals, the federal regulations as total concentrations, with monthly averages, composite samples and grab values, and the site's own discharge objectives add parameters of their own. One sample often feeds three calculations.
Overlapping deadlines
Monthly results are due within 30 days, the quarterly federal report within 45 days, and March 31 and June 1 concentrate most of the annual reports: effluents, water withdrawals and royalty, release inventory, greenhouse gases, industrial establishment report.
The mechanics
One requirement family, one way to track it
Enviro recognizes the nature of each requirement during structuring and applies the appropriate tracking. Here are the most common families on a mine site.
| Family | Example | How Enviro tracks it |
|---|---|---|
| 01Limits and limit values | TSS at the final effluent, 15 mg/L monthly average and 30 mg/L maximum (Directive 019) | Compliance calculation using the exact rule of each regime, alert as soon as the value approaches or crosses the threshold |
| 02Monitoring and sampling | Weekly sampling and monthly toxicity test at the final effluent (federal regulations) | Sampling program generated from the frequency, tasks assigned, alert if a sample is missing |
| 03Reports with deadlines | Monthly results within 30 days, annual report by March 31 (Directive 019) | Regulatory calendar, template filled from validated data, proof of submission kept |
| 04Event notices | Accidental release to be reported immediately (EQA, section 21) | Event opened from the field or from a calculation, deadline clock, pre-filled notice |
| 05Registers | Exceedance register submitted every month and kept for five years | Register structured with the required fields, fed by events, exportable at any time |
| 06Studies and deliverables | Study required by the Order in Council, or corrective program due on a set date | Dated milestone, internal owner or contracted firm, deliverable linked to the requirement |
| 07Inspections and reviews | Safety reviews and independent reviews of tailings facilities (Directive 019) | Inspection checklists, findings and recommendations tracked until they are closed |
| 08Fees and royalties | Water royalty, dewatering included, above 50,000 litres per day | Volumes compiled from measurements, documented calculation, payment deadline tracked |
| 09Commitments to the community | Noise monitoring agreed with neighbours, indicators presented to the monitoring committee | Commitment treated as a requirement, with its source, owner and proof |
In the field
Water, noise, dust and blasting, on one map
The issues that keep teams busiest are also the ones neighbours notice first. Enviro places every monitoring point on the site map:
- water sampling points and observation wells;
- noise stations and particulate sensors;
- blast seismographs.
Each point is linked to its requirements and latest measurements. When a complaint comes in, you see on the same screen what nearby stations were measuring at that moment, the wind direction and the time of the last blast. You respond with data rather than assumptions.
Show us your March calendar. We'll show you what would already be ready
The demo starts from your own deadlines. We take the annual report or the monitoring that takes the most piecing together, and look at how it would fill in from the data already linked.