Fall 2005 - Ontario Sewer and Watermain Construction Association

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Message 

Kathleen Grimes 

Director’s Message 

Sam Morra 

ANNOUNCEMENTS & BULLETINS 

New Claims Management Course 

New Gold Seal Certificate Recipients 

FEATURES 

The Ontario Infrastructure Projects Corporation 


“Struck-By” Accidents 

One Call Legislation 

Facing challenges 

The Civil Construction 

Management Education Series 

Water Strategy Expert Panel 

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Message from Kathleen Grimes, President, OSWCA 

When I first 

assumed the 

role of President 

of the 

OSWCA in February 

of 2005, I anticipated a challenge, 

however I never expected 

that our Executive Director, Sam 

Morra, would resign from his position 

during my Presidency. It was 

over six years ago that Sam encouraged 

me to participate as a Board 

Member of the OSWCA and that, in 

itself, clearly demonstrates the progressive 

and dynamic approach that 

he has brought to the Association. 

Sam’s departure certainly adds a 

new dimension to the challenges 

that we, as an association, will face 

over the next few months. As an 

individual, Sam has made a very significant 

contribution to the 

OSWCA, not only in terms of his 

day to day tasks, but also in terms of 

the Association’s growth and expan- 

sion as a well-respected and powerful 

organization in Ontario. Sam is, 

understandably, returning to his 

roots as a contractor and as an Association 

we wish him the best and 

look forward to his participation in 

the Association as a contractor 

member. 

The OSWCA, in conjunction 

with the Greater Toronto Sewer and 

Watermain Contractors Association, 

has begun the search for a new 

Executive Director and, until such 

time as a new Executive Director has 

joined the Association, the OSWCA 

Board of Directors has established a 

system that will provide the basis 

for transition to a new Executive 

Director. More specifically, the 

Board of Directors has appointed a 

transition team comprised of four 

board members who, along with 

myself, will oversee the operation of 

the Association and provide guidance 

and assistance to the new Executive 

Director. In addition, Board 

Members have committed to more 

active roles during this transition 

period and correspondingly will be 

relied upon for their experience and 

expertise as required. 

At any given point in time there is an issue 

that dominates the day and, at this particular 

point in time, that would be the Expert Water 

Panel Report which was released on Friday, 

July 22, 2005. 

At any given point in time there 

is an issue that dominates the day 

and, at this particular point in time, 

that would be the Expert Water 

Panel Report which was released on 

Friday, July 22, 2005. The Expert 


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Water Panel was originally charged 

with the task of providing advice to 

the provincial government with 

respect to the organization and long 

term financing of Ontario’s water 

and wastewater systems. The Panel 

acknowledged that over the next 15 

years, water and wastewater investment 

needs in Ontario are expected 

to range from 30 to 40 billion dollars 

and accordingly, “…municipalities 

will become hard-pressed to invest 

enough to bring their systems into 

good repair and meet increasingly 

high standards while keeping their 

rates affordable.” In response to this 

dilemma, the Panel has made a series 

of detailed recommendations that 

focus on the following: increasing 

the scale and capacity of water and 

wastewater systems; implementation 

of financial sustainability through 

full cost pricing; encouraging 

stronger and more effective governance 

through municipal corporations; 

moving towards a resultsbased 

regulation system by creating 

an Ontario Water Board; facilitating 

innovations in new technology and 

training by ensuring that MOE 

devotes additional resources in this 

regard; and finally, revising the mandate 

of the Ontario Clean Water 

Agency to provide an arm’s length 

from the government by reorganizing 

it under the Ontario Business 

Corporations Act. 

Over the next few months the 

OSWCA will be concentrating its 

efforts on assessing and evaluating 

the impact that the many detailed 

recommendations may have on our 

industry. I believe that as an association 

we have the foresight to envision 

how the recommendations will eventually 

translate into reality. Not only 

will the Association ensure that our 

vision is both understood and considered 

by the government, but we will 

continue to provide valuable detailed 

input to the government that will 

benefit the industry as a whole. ■

From Lloyd Ferguson’s 

bulldog approach to 

Mike Turek’s desire to 

have local meetings 

to Doug Woods’ 

safety-first culture to 

Rene Doornekamp’s 

“friendly giant” 

demeanour to 

Chris McNally’s 

pragmaticality to 

Tony DiPede’s practicality 

to Ted Cooper’s vision to 

Dave Pagnan’s deceiving 

intelligence to 

Ron Robinson’s quiet 

shrewdness to 

John Weber’s seeming 

crustiness to 

Kathleen Grimes’ 

toughness, I have 

learned from them all. 

Message from Sam Morra, Executive Director OSWCA 

What a great 14-plus years it has 

been at the OSWCA 

By now you no doubt 

have heard that I am 

moving on. What a 

great 14-plus years it 

has been at the 

OSWCA. I really do feel privileged 

to have worked with such a great 

group of people in the sewer and 

watermain construction industry. 

In particular, each of the Presidents 

I have served with has made a 

positive and lasting impression on 

me. From Lloyd Ferguson’s bulldog 

approach to Mike Turek’s desire to 

have local meetings to Doug Woods’ 

safety-first culture to Rene 

Doornekamp’s “friendly giant” 

demeanour to Chris McNally’s pragmaticality 

to Tony DiPede’s practicality 

to Ted Cooper’s vision to Dave 

Pagnan’s deceiving intelligence to 

Ron Robinson’s quiet shrewdness to 

John Weber’s seeming crustiness to 

Kathleen Grimes’ toughness, I have 

learned from them all. I most 

enjoyed the times of strategic thinking 

and positioning on the multitude 

of issues facing the industry on 

a daily basis. 

I feel it is necessary to clarify that 

it is only a mere coincidence that I 

am resigning within six months of 

the OSWCA appointing its first 

female president! I am not leaving 

due to Kathleen Grimes! In fact, I’ve 

had a lot of fun these past few 

months discussing the issues with 

our newest leader. 

The saddest part of my departure 

will be saying goodbye to my staff. 

Gus Morelli has been a rock for me. 

Mr. Dependable who came from the 

field like me. Few know that Gus 

was an injured pipe layer that went 

to college in his thirties to get 

retrained as a Certified Engineering 

Technologist. Not an easy thing to 

do. Meredith Karosas has kept me 

on the straight and narrow for the 

last seven years. She’s balanced my 

schedule when it seemed like it 

couldn’t be done. So many of you 

have come to know her pleasing 

demeanor. Margaret Malagowski is 

another seven-year employee who 

has done double duty on a couple of 

occasions as Meredith created her 

family. Margaret is special because 

she came straight out of college to 

work with me and hasn’t left since. 

The person I will miss most of all 

will be Mary Reuse. Mary and I started 

together at the Association mere 

weeks apart in 1991. Through thick 

and thin she has supported my 

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progress through the 

Association’s ranks… 

ranks when others thought I might 

not be able to do the job. 

I remember looking at financial 

statements with Lloyd and Mary in 

1995 and thinking that we only had 

a few months to survive if the members 

didn’t buy into the industry 

fund program. Wow, have we ever 

come a long way! The OSWCA is 

now Canada’s strongest advocate for 

clean water and safe sewage infrastructure 

construction. We have laid 

the foundation for Ontario’s sewers 

and watermains to be financially 

sustainable forever. 

Although we have done much, 

there is always more to do. By working 

together and building on our 

strength at the grassroots level, we 

can attain any goals we set. I wish all 

of you the very best in the future - a 

future in which the OSWCA continues 

to prosper while looking after 

the best interests of its members. 

Again, it has truly been a pleasure 

to serve the industry. 

God bless and thank you. ■

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The Ontario government 

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create a new provincial 

agency to manage 

major public infrastructure 

projects. Public Infrastructure 

Renewal Minister David Caplan 

announced the formation of the 

Ontario Infrastructure Projects Corporation 

(OIPC) on May 9, 2005. 

The government said OIPC will 

be an independent agency reporting 

to the Minister of Public Infrastructure 

Renewal. It will have a 

focus on Alternative Financing and 

Procurement Projects (AFP), and will 

also have a mandate to provide 

expertise and best business practices 

for all areas of infrastructure planning. 

“To truly tackle Ontario’s infrastructure 

deficit, we need more 

capital on the table. Our government 

will be pursuing AFP projects 

vigorously,” Caplan said, adding that 

the OIPC will play a key role in making 

that happen. 

The Urban Development Institute 

of Ontario says OIPC is the 

government’s investment tool to 

address the public infrastructure 

deficit. “Lack of government facilitation 

and investment has stymied 

the construction of critical infrastructure 

for too long and if the 

Provincial government does not 

take decisive action today, Ontario 

runs the risk of squandering the 

opportunity to enhance the Province’s 

economic competitiveness,” 

said Neil Rodgers, the Institute’s 

president, in a press release. The 

Urban Development Institute of 

Ontario supports the Province 

leveraging private sector monies to 

help deliver infrastructure projects 

in an accelerated fashion within a 

fair, transparent and efficient 

process. 

The government’s decision to 

use alternate sources of funding for 

public infrastructure is no surprise. 


In July 2004, the government 

released a document called “Building 

a Better Tomorrow - Infrastructure 

Planning, Financing and 

Procurement Framework for 

Ontario’s Public Sector”. This document 

was billed as the government’s 

10-year framework on 

renewing Ontario’s infrastructure. 

The document said the reasons for 

this framework was to ensure 

“…that Ontario has the financial 


capacity to deliver the infrastructure 

the province needs.” 

This document clearly hinted at 

the government’s intent to explore 

public-private partnerships. Under 

the principle of “Value for Money 

must be demonstrable”, the document 

says, “Where private financing 

is involved in the delivery of 

public infrastructure initiatives, 

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Under the principle of “Appropriate 

Public control/owner must be preserved” 

the government states that 

“…water, sewer, hospital and publicly-funded 

school assets will 

remain publicly owned and controlled”, 

leaving the reader to 

assume that all other infrastructure 

is open to private investment. 

Stakeholders in the sewer and 

watermain industry are well aware 

that the infrastructure spending lags 

well behind the requirements. A 

study done by TD Bank Financial 

Group in May 2004 estimated Canada’s 

infrastructure gap to be between 

$50 billion and $125 billion, which 

is 6-10 times the level of all current 

annual government infrastructure 

budgets combined. TD Bank’s Chief 

Economist, Donald Drummond, said 

the municipal infrastructure gap as a 

percentage of national GDP grew 

from 2.7% in 1984 to 5.0% in 2002. 

The Urban Development Institute 

said that industry is urging the 

government to act quickly and 

launch the corporation in order to 

unlock the required capital and 

begin construction of critical infrastructure. 

Wilson Lee, a spokesperson 

for Minister Caplan said the 

government is presently reviewing 

the staffing options and the other 

requirements to set up the agency. 

He said the government hopes to 

have the agency up and running in 

the next few months. 

“We are taking a bold step 

towards renewing our infrastructure,” 

Caplan said at a Toronto 

Board of Trade luncheon. “By supporting 

provincial government ministries, 

local municipalities and 

agencies in the broader public sector 

in their dealings with the private 

sector, while also directly overseeing 

new, large alternatively financed 

infrastructure projects, we are taking 

action now to secure our infrastructure 

for future generations.” ■

ORCGA 

Founded just two years ago, 

the Ontario Regional Common 

Ground Alliance has 

seen a rapid increase in its 

membership – particularly 

over the last few months. Jim Douglas, 

Executive Director of the 

ORCGA says, “In the past six 

months the ORCGA has grown in 

membership to 104, more than triple 

from this time last year. We have 

also added six new sponsors.” 

Douglas said that the key factor 

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growth is that the ORCGA represents 

all the industry stakeholders. “When 

people are looking at value, they 

want to ensure not only their specific 

needs are met but that any blocks 

in dealing with other sectors of the 

industry are cleared,” he said. 

“ORCGA members can bring forward 

an exhaustive list of pros and cons 

of any particular issue since all sectors 

of the industry are represented. 

The group develops Best Practices 

and agreement is on consensus only. 

This means that everyone at the 

“In the past six months the ORCGA has grown in 

membership to 104, more than triple from this time last 

year. We have also added six new sponsors.” 

table has to agree on any change for 

any Best Practice before it moves forward. 

This is a key factor that 

encourages membership.” 

There are three levels of sponsorship 

at ORCGA – Bronze, Silver and 

Gold. Each level has its own value 

proposition which can be found on 

the organization’s website at 

www.orcga.com. The annual membership 

fee for Bronze sponsors is 

$5,000, Silver sponsors pay $10,000 

and gold sponsors pay $20,000. 

Ontario 1 Call, Toronto Hydro Electric 

System and Super Sucker 

Vacuum Excavation are all new 

Bronze sponsors. Hydro One, 

Avertex and Badger Daylighting 

Inc. are new Gold level 

sponsors. 

Although the benefits of 

membership in the ORCGA 

are self-evident, the organization 

has also been engaging in 

various events from awareness 

sessions to trade show participation 

in order to boost membership. 

ORCGA hosted ten awareness 

sessions in cities and 

regions around the province 

including Niagara, Hamilton, 

Waterloo, London, Windsor, 

Sarnia, Toronto, North Bay, 

Ottawa, and Cornwall. Douglas 

said that at the awareness 


sessions, the organization was able 

to communicate early successes and 

continuing benefits to the excavating 

community. He said the awareness 

sessions procured many new 

members. 

The organization’s second annual 

symposium was held this March at 

the Delta Meadowvale Hotel in Mississauga. 

Over three hundred delegates 

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On February 28th, the ORCGA 

hosted a Canadian Common 

Ground Alliance Forum to discuss 

coordination of efforts for other 

Canadian Provincial CGAs. The purpose 

of the forum was to communicate 

the progress of the ORCGA and 

to help others who are planning on 

implementing a CGA in their 

respective province. Both Quebec 

and Alberta have regional CGA 

chapters and preliminary plans are 

underway to develop chapters in 

other western provinces. 

While new members are being 

recruited, the work of current members 

continues with the Best Practice 

committees. At the May 13th functional 

committee meeting, three Best 

Practices were revised and one new 

Best Practice was approved. A number 

of new Best Practices are expected to 

be approved at the functional committee 

meeting in September. The 

ORCGA has planned to release a second 

volume of its Best Practice Book 

in the fall. All the committees are 

planning on coordinating their meeting 

dates throughout the year to 

make if easier for committee members 

to attend meetings and attract 

new members. Once complete, all the 

dates will be listed on the website. 

Even with this very full schedule, 

in addition to all the work that has 

gone into this early success with 

membership and deliverables, Jim 

Douglas has no intention of resting 

on his laurels. “I think the work has 

just begun. There are many more 

people to whom we need to communicate. 

We have had very early success 

but the potential for any 

organization to get involved is 

huge,” he said. ■

“Struck-By” 

Accidents 

Superintendents and company owners 

need to ‘walk the walk’ 

“ 

You need to look into how many times vehicles 

and machines have bumped into objects 

– because that could have been a worker. You 

only get one chance with an accident like 

this and generally it is fatal. This is very 

unforgiving equipment to be around. It doesn’t respect 

you, doesn’t care about you, weighs 20 tonnes more than 

you and does not stop when you are in its path.” Jim 

LaFontaine is serious and wants workers to listen well. He 

is in charge of health and safety at Dufferin Construction, 

and does not want to see any more “struck-by” accidents. 

“Struck-by” accidents occur when workers are struck by 

moving equipment. By 

April this year, the industry 

already had two fatal 

struck-by accidents. 

Struck-by accidents have 

now replaced electrocution 

as the second leading 

cause of death in construction. 

Even worse, 

every struck-by accident is 

preventable, and safety 

proponents want to make 

sure workers and supervisors 

are taking the extra 

precautions necessary. 

LaFontaine said that 

his company is always 

looking at areas where 

safety can be improved 

to prevent struck-by 

accidents. “We’ve installed back up detection devices 

that have sonar units that send out a signal that an 

object is behind. That technology is now available for 

large off-road equipment and we are in the process of 

testing it,” he said. 


“Secondly, we’re looking at the camera system. We’ve 

installed cameras on the back of our three fuel trucks and 

they are equipped with an audible microphone. As soon 

as the transmission is engaged the camera is turned on 

inside the cab and the driver cannot just see, but also hear 

what is going on behind him. It has a140-degree visibility 

with a fish eye lens,” LaFontaine explained. 

However, even with the best technology, LaFontaine 

stressed that the primary safety tool is the operator. “The 

operator must always check over the shoulder for the 

blind spot. These [new technology] devices are an added 

secondary safety feature,” he said, “One of the big prob- 

lems is that the equipment travels as fast in reverse as it 

does in driving forward.” 

LaFontaine is adamant that adequate awareness training 

is essential to accident prevention. “The biggest problem 

is that the workers on the ground assume the 

The Undergrounder /Fall 2005 • 17

“We mandated a condition of employment that the 

foreman does a five-minute safety talk once a week 

with his crew. That shows commitment from the foreman. 

He goes over safety topics that are relevant. We 

reinforce the formal training through the foreman’s 

safety talks,” LaFontaine said. Tailgate topics are also 

available from CSAO. Furthermore, he said that every 

time any safety training is done, the employees receive 

awareness training on backup procedures. 

Struck-by accidents have now replaced electrocution as the second 

leading cause of death in construction. Even worse, every struck-by accident 

is preventable, and safety proponents want to make sure workers and 

supervisors are taking the extra precautions necessary. 

operator can see them, and in big machines and in trucks 

there are blind spots. It is a real priority for us to train our 

people to be aware of the blind spot, to make sure they 

catch the operator’s attention and let him/her know 

where they are,” he said. 

One of the biggest issues in preventing struck-by accidents 

is complacency. LaFontaine said that workers are 

wearing their safety vests all the time and this gives them 

a false sense of security because they assume the equipment 

operator should see them. Legally, all dump trucks 

must have backup beepers, and LaFontaine said that Dufferin 

Construction uses them on all their equipment. 

However, with equipment backing up often, he said the 

backup beepers become white noise – people tend to tune 

them out because they hear them all day long. 

The solution, LaFontaine said, is to have drive 

throughs so that trucks don’t have to reverse, and to separate 

workers from the machinery whenever possible. In 

fact, Enzo Garritano, the Manager of Technical Service 

and Quality Assurance for the Construction Safety Association 

of Ontario (CSAO), said that having drive-throughs 

whenever possible is the law. “The requirements are all 

outlined in the Regulations for Construction Projects,” he 

said, “If all parties are following the requirements, we 

lower the risk of accidents greatly.” 

Dufferin Construction has now gone beyond the minimum 

requirements and has also developed a backup permit 

system. “It is a checklist for a supervisor to make sure 

that all the elements of the back up program are in place. 

They have to ensure backup beepers are working, that the 

signal person is in place and is trained, and ensure we 

have a drive-through operation wherever possible,” 

LaFontaine said. Depending on the scope of the work the 

permit could be good for a day or for a week. 

As well, Dufferin promotes continuous formal training 

and informal training through tailgate meetings. 


Having the safety features in good working order is 

important and LaFontaine said companies should be 

reminded to have a program to make sure the backup 

beepers are working. “There are just two thin wires making 

the backup beeper work and especially with the heavy 

work these machine perform, the wires can corrode and 

break off,” he explained. 

For those organizations that do not have enough inhouse 

resources, the CSAO provides an excellent training 

program called Traffic Control and Backing Up. 

LaFontaine recommends all workers receive this training. 

The training is available in picture form so it can transcend 

any language barriers. Nonetheless, CSAO has also 

translated it into Portuguese and Italian. LaFontaine said a 

foreman can be used as an interpreter to make sure there 

are no language issues. 

LaFontaine said that safety programs are the most 

effective when they have support at all levels of the organization. 

“Superintendents and company owners need to 

‘walk the walk’. When you get out of your vehicle, the 

hard hat and safety vest should go on immediately. They 

need to demand excellence in health and safety as a condition 

of employment. The workers will see that and there 

will be a better safety culture out in the field,” he said. 

“Our goal as an association and an industry has to be 

zero injuries, zero accidents and it is attainable but not 

through good luck, it has to be through good management,” 

LaFontaine said. ■

One Call Legislation 

Using legislation to 

back-up the One- 

Call procedures only 

makes sense and the 

OSWCA is working 

hard to make this happen. While 

pushing through any form of legislation 

is a difficult task, One-Call 

legislation has its own challenges – 

including the separation of provincial 

and federal jurisdictions. 

Last year, the Ontario Regional 

Common Ground Alliance (ORCGA) 

developed a Best Practices Guide 

modelled on a similar document 

developed by the Common Ground 

Alliance in the US. However, when 

comparing the two guides, one major 

difference is that every state in the US 

has some form of One-Call legisla- 

tion, whereas that is absent in Canadian 

jurisdictions. US legislation 

covers all underground infrastructure. 

In Canada, we run into difficulties 

because telecoms are federally regu- 

Facing challenges 


Zechner said that after a certain point, the task 

force has to give the issue up to provincial 

legislators and urge them to move it through. 

“One of the optimistic elements is that we are 

trying to approach the Ontario government on a 

consensus basis by having a broad representation 

of stakeholders who agree to the proposed 

legislation and thereby reduce the likelihood of 

opposition,” he said. 

lated through the CRTC and the rest 

of the underground utilities are 

provincially regulated. 

Frank Zechner, an independent 

legal practitioner who assists OSWCA 

on various matters, said that One-Call 

legislation would promote public 

safety and worker safety, protect 

underground plant and reduce overall 

costs to the province. He said 

provincial laws first need to be put in 

order and then we can deal with federal-provincial 

jurisdiction issues. 

“In Ontario we have a regulatory 

gap,” he said. “We have legislation 

through the Energy Act and now 

under TSSA [Technical Standards 

Safety Authority] for people to 

require a locate and for gas companies 

to respond to locate. In November 

2004, we finally got a similar 

regulation in place for the electrical 

distributors. The Occupational 

Health and Safety Act requires excavators 

to obtain locates and 

arguably requires utilities to respond 

but there is not one standard legislation 

that we feel is adequate to regulate 

One Call procedures.” 

Zechner said that one stumbling 

block is that telecoms are federally 

regulated through the CRTC and are 

immune to certain provincial legislation. 

“The hope is that once we 

develop a bill in Ontario, we might 

initiate a dialogue with the CRTC 

and other federal bodies and have 

them adopt our law as one of their 

requirements or to pass parallel legislation,” 

he said. 

In 2002, the National Telecommunications 

Damage Prevention 

Council (NTDPC) in the US developed 

a model One Call bill for US 

state legislation. The ORCGA One- 


Call Legislation Task Force decided 

this model bill would be a good 

starting point, especially as it was 

developed by the telecom industry, 

which is one of the more reluctant 

sectors regarding One-Call issues. In 

addition, certain NTDPC members 

also operate in Canada. 

The ORCGA One-Call Legislation 

Task Force, of which Zechner is a 

member, is an intra-industry task 

force looking at developing One-Call 


legislation. The task force includes 

representatives from most affected 

sectors including representatives from 

Bell Canada, Hydro One, Enbridge, 

Union Gas, OSWCA, TSSA, ORBA (the 

Ontario Road Builders Association), 

and Ontario One Call. The task force 

has also had representation from 

municipal engineers associations. 

“We started with that US model 

bill and made changes to reflect the 

Canadian and Ontario framework. 

We determined that we would carve 

out anything that amounted to a best 

practice, because we wanted best 

practices to become an objective for 

the industry. What’s left is a five-tosix 

page document that has some key 

fundamental requirements,” Zechner 

said. The key requirements are that 

anyone who has an underground 

plant in the public right of way or 

roadway allowance must participate 

in a provincial One-Call system; anyone 

proposing to excavate in the public 

right of way must request a locate 

through the One-Call system, and; 

the utilities who are members must 

respond to those locate requests. 

In order to move the legislation 

through the required channels, 

ORCGA has retained a well-respected 

consulting agency, Informetrica, to 

prepare a comprehensive study on 

the cost of utility damage in Ontario 

and to provide recommendations. 

ORCGA is also developing information 

comparison documents that 

could be provided to stakeholders 

and legislators for comments. However, 

Zechner said that after a certain 

point, the task force has to give the 

issue up to provincial legislators and 

urge them to move it through. “One 

of the optimistic elements is that we 

are trying to approach the Ontario 

government on a consensus basis by 

having a broad representation of 

stakeholders who agree to the proposed 

legislation and thereby reduce 

the likelihood of opposition,” he said. 

The task force and the industry are 

moving quickly on getting the One- 

Call legislation developed. It has only 

been two years since ORCGA came 

into existence and it was only after 

the initial best practices were finalized 

last spring that the stakeholders 

began to consider legislation to complement 

the best practices. Zechner is 

one of many people who hope the 

momentum can keep going and that 

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in a new course on 

claims that can be 

used towards their 

Gold Seal Certification. The course 

is part of the series on Civil Construction 

Management Education 

offered by the Joint Committee on 

Education in conjunction with 

Ryerson University. The Committee 

is composed of members from 

OSWCA and the Ontario Road 

Builders Association (ORBA). 

The Joint Committee on Education 

was struck about eight years 

ago. The committee started out by 

offering four courses, and in 2006 

will offer seven courses to OSWCA 

and ORBA members. The courses 

are usually offered during the slow 

construction months of January 

and February and the main thrust 

of all the courses is for Gold Seal 

certification. Students must pass 

each course for the certification. 

Neil Toner has been sitting on 

the committee since its inception, 

and is also its chairman. “When we 

first sat down eight years ago we 

brainstormed on what kind of 

courses we needed. We kicked this 

one on claims around for about a 

year and decided to go ahead with 

it,” he explained. Toner said that 


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typically once the committee 

decides to move ahead with a 

course, they first choose an instructor 

for the course and then begin to 

develop the course material with 

the instructor. The committee has 

almost finalized the choice of 

instructor for the claims course. 

For January 2005, there were six 

courses that made up the Civil Construction 

Management Education 

Series. Financial Management for 

the Non-Financial Manager is 

taught by Deirdre Taylor, who 

began her career in the construction 

industry and is now a Professor of 

Accounting at Ryerson University. 

The course has been specially 

designed for the civil construction 

industry and makes allowance for 

non-financial supervisors. The 

objective is to instil an understanding 

of how profit is derived in the 

construction industry and the 

importance of tracking cash flows. 

The course on Health & Safety – 

Risk, Responsibility and Liability is 

billed as “the most comprehensive 

health and safety program available 

to civil contractors”. The course takes 

supervisors and managers through 

the rules and regulations of interacting 

with the Ministry of Labour, the 

prosecution process and defence, due 

diligence and loss control. For mem- 

bers of the Civil Construction Safety 

Group, this course is mandatory for 

at least one representative from each 

company. 

The most popular course of the 

series is Effective Communication 

and Negotiating Skills. This course is 

designed to improve the written, oral 

and negotiating skills of supervisors 

and managers. It teaches the skills of 

successful debate from listening skills 

to determine the needs of the other 

party, and resulting in a win-win situation. 

The course has two instructors. 

Peter Wilson has over 20 years’ 

management experience with companies 

such as IBM, General Foods 

and ATCO. He is a professor at Ryerson 

University and teaches the negotiating 

part of the course. Colleen 

Marlin is an accomplished broadcaster 

and radio and television scriptwriter. 

She has been teaching 

business communications for over 20 

years at the post secondary level. She 

teaches the written communications 

portion of the course. 

The Pre-Bid Risk Management 

course was completely redesigned 

with a new instructor for 2005. The 

instructor, Eric Lewis, has spent his 

entire 40-year career working in the 

civil construction industry. He has 

handled all kinds of civil projects 

from supervision of the bid to man-

aging the work. The course itself 

provides comprehensive identification 

and analysis of the elements of 

risk leading up to the civil contractor’s 

bid. 

Peter Wilson also teaches the 

course on Management Skills: What 

Makes a Good Manager. Over five 

days, Wilson works with students to 

give them the skills required to 

effectively plan, organize, direct, 

control, solve problems and learn 

from experience. This course is 

filled with interactive activity and is 

a favourite with OSWCA members. 

The Construction Law course is 

only in its second year. It provides an 

introduction to basic legal concepts 

and principles of Canadian law as 

they relate to the development of 

land and the construction process. 

The course instructor is lawyer Glen 

W. Ackerley, a partner with Weir- 

Foulds Law Firm. His primary area of 

practice is construction law. Ackerley 

also teaches the Construction Law 

course at the Department of Architectural 

Science and Landscape Architecture 

at Ryerson University. 

Toner said that OSWCA and 

ORBA members appreciate the 

courses offered and the education 

committee makes sure the courses 

give students what they need. 

“Attendance has been excellent, it 

has been quite impressive,” he said. 

The Education Committee takes 

steps to ensure the courses give students 

what they need to know. “We 

give every student an evaluation to 

complete on the instructor and contents 

of the course. On the whole it 

has been positive. Any negative 

comments are reviewed and if it is 

justified we review the course and 

interview the instructor.” 

Any members looking for more 

information should contact the 

OSWCA office. As well, The Canadian 

Construction Association is 

working with the committee to take 

the courses online. ■ 

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Few Ontarians realize how 

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Ontario says that Ontario consumes 

an average of 155 million tonnes of 

aggregate annually. Every person in 

Ontario consumes about 15 tonnes 

of gravel per year on roads, sidewalks, 

asphalt or even roofing shingles. 

Aggregate is used in everything 

from houses and schools to roads 

and even products inside homes. 

One person that is acutely aware 

of the many uses of aggregate is 

Greg White, General Manager for 

Kovacs Sand & Gravel. The company 

has been supplying aggregate since 

2003. Kovacs Sand & Gravel owns a 

gravel pit from which they produce 

sand and gravel for construction 

projects mostly in the Durham 

region. At the time the company 

purchased the gravel pit, it was lying 

dormant. Previously this same pit 

was operated on a levy basis, where 

operators would pay a fee to produce 

their own gravel. Kovacs brought the 

pit back into operation and now 

hires trucks to move the sand and 

gravel out of the pit. “We produce 

material all year round, and we’re 

constantly pricing work,” White 

said. “We have gone from a wayside 

pit to a 12-month operation.” 

Kovacs has four full-time employees, 

in addition to managing the trucks. 

“We don’t own any trucks, but we 

employ people to run trucks and 

that can vary from seven trucks a 

day to thirty trucks a day. We try to 

keep it down to a decent flow,” 

White said. The company supplies 

all types of granular material. 

Kovacs Sand & Gravel has quickly 

made a name for themselves in this 

competitive business. The company 

is currently supplying a big job on 

Highway 12 in Durham that is being 

done by the Miller Group. “We have 

done quite a few large subdivisions. 

We just finished a big sub-division 

in Brooklyn. Our jobs typically 

range from 5000 tonnes to 60,000 – 

70,000 tonnes,” White said. He said 

the company also has a contract 

with the Ontario Power’s two 

nuclear plants. “The jobs at these 

plants are challenging because it is 

hard to get material in and out 

because of security and the trucks 

get tied up for a few days,” White 

explained. 

The aggregate business naturally 

follows the construction cycle with 

the usual ebbs and flows. This brings 

its own set of challenges. “Some jobs 

are very large and the customer 

wants the material out at once. In 

this business, we have to manage the 

trucks well. Sometimes there just 

doesn’t seem to be enough trucks to 

go around. It is hard for someone 

who owns six trucks to get six more 

because they’ll be sitting idle from 

Christmas until spring,” White said. 

“We produce product all year around 

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If we don’t manage the trucks properly, 

jobs can get delayed.” 

White said that the high cost of 

fuel also plays havoc with the business 

plan. “It is an extremely competitive 

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are absolutely paralyzing for us. One 

third of the trucks’ daily intake gets 

consumed in fuel costs and there is 

no recourse. We have to price work 

in the dead of winter that isn’t going 

to start until June the following year. 

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fuel at 78 cents per litre and it is now 

at 98,” White said. He said that dealing 

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is the hardest part of the 

business. “If the cost of fuel was fixed 

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it would be easier because then we 

can budget it. However, now with 

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because of competitors. This is one of 

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Despite the challenges of the 

industry, White said he enjoys working 

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he said. “I deal with individual small 

contractors and we give them the 

the right pipe, the right choice, the right supplier 

High Density Polyethylene Sclairpipe® 

Proven Performance 

Diameters 3/4” 

to 63” 

Full range of Fittings 

AWWA C901/C906, ASTM F-714 

ISO 9002 

Fusion Service Centre 

On-site Fusion Services 3/4” 

to 63” 

Fusion Machine Sales / Rentals 

Electrofusion Processors 

Extrusion Welding (Custom Fab.) 

Training (On-site or In-shop) 

154 Crown Court, Whitby, Ontario L1N 7B1 

Toll Free (877) 261-5293 Fax: (905) 579-4755 

info@scarboroughsupply.com www.scarboroughsupply.com 

Distributor of: 

Construction INSURANCE 

AND SURETY SPECIALISTS 

T o r o nto 

Frank DiIlio 

11 Cidermill Avenue 

Concord, ON L4K 4B6 

905.760.5569 

866.755.0655 

same attention and courtesy as we do 

to people who own 50 pieces of 

equipment. I think it is good that 

someone can walk in here and see 

the guy who runs the place. The contractors 

can phone me right up and 

get an answer ASAP. The truckers 

know they can just walk in here and 

talk to me.” From the proven success 

in the past few years, it seems that 

customers have already recognized 

the benefits of choosing Kovacs. ■ 

CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 

& BUSINESS ADVISORS 

BUSINESS ADVISORY SERVICES 

MANAGEMENT CONSULTING 

TAX PLANNING & COUNSELING 

INVESTIGATIVE ACCOUNTING 

ACCOUNTING & AUDITING 

Auditors for the Ontario Sewer & 

Watermain Construction Association 

2000 STEELES AVE. W., SUITE 200 

CONCORD, ON L4K 3E9 

PHONE (416) 798-4997 

FAX (905) 660-3064 

E-MAIL rsp@rsp.ca 

www.rsp.ca

Easy to install, 

corrosion resistant, 

maintenance-free 

safety equipment, 

engineered to meet 

your most exacting 

requirements and 

fabricated to the highest 

industry standards. 

Voice: 905 823-4340 

Fax: 905 823-4947 

Toll Free:1-800-268-5336 

Browse our Website: 

www.msumississauga.com 

e-mail: msumiss@globalserve.net 

AGGREGATES 

LARRY PRESTON 

President/Owner 

BUS.: (905) 473-1921 

FAX: (905) 473-5754 

E-MAIL: larry@floydprestonlimited.ca 

SERVICES LTD. 

SEWERS • DRAINS 

310 DINGLE COURT 

BOLTON, ON 

L7E 4T1 

www.eyeviewdrains.com 

CONSTRUCTION LIMITED 

R.R.#1 N0B 2K0 

GENERAL CONTRACTORS 

EXCAVATING 

SEWER, WATERMAIN 

& UNDERGROUND 

UTILITY INSTALLATIONS 

Tel. (519) 856-9526 

Fax (519) 856-9182 

R.R. #1 

Rockwood, Ontario 

N0B 2K0 

FLOYD PRESTON LIMITED 

AGGREGATES - TRANSPORTATION - TOPSOIL 

LANDSCAPING ROCKS - TRIPLE MIX 


Video Inspection 

Cleaning - Locating 

Hydroexcavation 

P.O. BOX 548 

18444 M C COWAN RD. 

MOUNT ALBERT, ON 

L0G 1M0 

KEN KIVISTO, B.A. 

BUS. (905) 857-0729 

1 (866) 393-8439 

FAX (905) 857-9494 

GTSWCA.OSWCA 


ACCOUNTANTS/MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS 

Rosenberg, Smith & Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 

AGGREGATES 

FPL Aggregates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 

Hard-Co Sand & Gravel/Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 

BONDING & INSURANCE 

Cunningham Lindsey Canada Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 

St. Paul Guarantee Insurance Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 

Stevenson & Hunt Insurance Brokers Ltd.. . . . . . . . . 28 

The Guarantee Company of North America . . . . . . . . 30 

CONCRETE PIPE & PRODUCTS MANUFACTURERS 

Con Cast Pipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 

CONCRETE PRODUCTS 

Anchor Concrete Products Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 

Munro Concrete Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT RENTALS & SALES 

United Rentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . inside front cover 

CONSTRUCTION LASERS 

Direct Equipment Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 

Ontario Laser Rentals Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 


CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS 

Armtec Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . inside back cover 

CONSULTING ENGINEERS 

Terraprobe Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 

TSH Engineers Architects & Planners . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 

CONTRACTORS 

Aecon Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 

Drexler Construction Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 

CONTRACTORS - SEWER & WATERMAIN 

V. Gibbons Contracting Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 

EXCAVATING 

Ontario Excavac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 

FUELS & LUBRICANTS 

Ultramar Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 

GROUNDWATER CONTROL 

Atlas Corp. (The) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . outside back cover 

HEAVY EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS 

Toromont Cat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 

Strongco Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 

MARINE CONTRACTORS 

McNally Construction Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 

Ultramar, premier supplier to industrial, 

commercial & construction customers 

• Gasolines 

• Distillates 

• Jet fuel 

• Heavy fuel oil 

• Heavy marine fuel oil 

• Asphalts 

• L.P.G.’s (propane, butane) 

• Lubricants 

For reliable service! 

Call: 905.361.2804 or 800.387.6244 

Buyers’ Guide & Trade List 

METAL FABRICATING 

MSU Mississauga Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 

PIPE SUPPLIERS 

Hanson Pipe & Products Cda. Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 

Ideal Pipe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 

Royal Pipe Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 

PIPES & FITTINGS 

Trenchless Utility Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 

POLYETHYLENE PIPE SYSTEMS 

Scarborough Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 

PRECAST CONCRETE PRODUCTS 


M Con Products Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 

PRECAST STRUCTURES 


PUMPS 

ITT Flygt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 

SEWER & DRAIN INSPECTION 

Eye-View Drain Services Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 

SHORING 



STORAGE TANKS & RESERVOIRS 


SURETY BONDS 

St. Paul Guarantee Insurance Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 

Stevenson & Hunt Insurance Brokers Ltd.. . . . . . . . . 28 

The Guarantee Company of North America . . . . . . . . 30 

TRAFFIC CONTROL PRODUCTS 


Beacon Lite Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 

TRENCH BOXES 



TUNNELING CONTRACTORS & ENGINEERS 

McNally Construction Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 

UTILITY LOCATING & MAPPING SERVICES 

MultiVIEW Locates, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 

VACUUM EXCAVATING 

Ontario Excavac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 

WATERJETTING & INDUSTRIAL VACUUMING 

Aquablast Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 

WATERWORKS PRODUCTS SUPPLIERS 

Crowle Fittings & Supply Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 

EMCO Waterworks Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 

Wamco Supply Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 

Wolseley Waterworks Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 

131 Loretta Avenue North, Ottawa, ON K1Y 2J7 

Tel.: (613) 722-7413 • Fax: (613) 722-0876 

1-888-740-0142 

TRAFFIC CONTROL PRODUCTS 

FOR OVER 40 YEARS 

Rentals – Sales – Service 

NATIONAL 

CAPITAL HEAVY 

CONSTRUCTION 

ASSOC. 

ASSOC. MEMBER 

Beacon Lite Ltd. 

• Impact Attenuators 

• Traffic Signs 

• Rubber Adjustment Risers 

• Traffic Control Devices 

• Safety Products 

• Site Fencing 

Serving Eastern Ontario 

& Western Quebec 

One-Stop For 

All Your Traffic 

Control Requirements 

OTTAWA 

CONSTRUCTION 

ASSOCIATION 

MEMBER

CSA G401 

BNQ 3311-100 

ASTM A929 

Galvanized 

Corrugated 

Steel Pipe 

CSA G401 

BNQ 3311-100 

ASTM A929 

Aluminized Type 2 

Steel Pipe 

CSA G401 

ASTM A929/A762 

Corrugated 

TRENCHCOAT® 

Steel Pipe 

CSA B182.6/B182.8* 

BNQ 3624-110, 

115, 120 

High Density 

Polyethylene Pipe 

* CSA certification available on all diameters 

100 mm - 750 mm (water tight coupling system) 

900 mm (soil tight coupling system) 

Head Office: 

Guelph, Ontario, Canada (519) 763-2360 Toll Free 1 (800) 265-9391 

Visit us at our web site: www.armtec.com 

Ontario Sales Offices: 

Toronto 905-738-3172, Peterborough 800-363-5047, London 519-661-0049, 

Thunder Bay 807-939-2601, Sudbury 800-315-2720, Chesterville 613-448-2314, 

Comber 519-687-2338, Forest 519-786-5742, Orangeville 800-265-2446

Atlas Bypass Pumping Services 

Atlas Bypass Pumping Services 

for the Construction Industry 

Includes: 

❚ Over 50 Years’ Experience in the Pumping Business 

❚ Reliable Pump Rentals and Sales 

❚ Large Inventory of Rental Equipment 

❚ Complete Turn Key Contracts 

❚ Diesel or Electric Pumps 

Other Services 

Provided Include: 

❚ Vacuum Wellpoint Dewatering Systems 

❚ Vacuum Eductor Well Dewatering Systems 

❚ Gravity and Vacuum Well Dewatering Systems 

❚ Dual Phase Extraction Systems 

❚ Groundwater Treatment Systems 

❚ Geotechnical and Environmental Drilling Services 

❚ Sediment/Weir Tanks 

❚ Oil/Water Separators 

ATLAS DEWATERING 

111 Ortona Court - Concord, Ontario, Canada L4K 3M3 

Phone: 905-669-6825 • Toll Free Phone: 1-877-669-6825 • Facsimile 905-669-4036 

Website: www.atlasdewatering.com • E-mail: info@atlasdewatering.com

Fall 2005 - Ontario Sewer and Watermain Construction Association

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