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Request a Quote →Barrie is a sewered city. The City’s sanitary design standard says new private sewage systems are not permitted, and that the City may consider the review and approval of a replacement or upgrade only where one is warranted. For most Barrie addresses the question is sewer connection, not a new septic system.
Where an existing private system does need work, City Building Services handles it as a Septic System project through its online portal, and the application includes the City’s Schedule 2 sewage system installer form.
Barrie also describes a septic reinspection program on its inspections page. It covers properties near Lake Simcoe and other water bodies in the Lake Simcoe watershed, and properties near municipal wells and intakes. Rural properties around Barrie are in neighbouring townships, each with its own building department; see Oro-Medonte and Severn.
Tell us about your project and a local septic contractor who works in Barrie can reach out to you directly.
Contractors in our network handle the installation side of septic work.
A new system for a new build, a cottage, an addition, or a lot that has never had one. It starts with a permit and a designed system.
When a tank, bed or whole system has reached the end of its life or no longer meets the Building Code, a replacement is designed and permitted.
Soggy ground, odours over the bed, or sewage backing up after a pump-out often point to the leaching bed rather than the tank.
Looking for pumping, tank cleaning, or a clogged drain? Those are a different trade, and this site does not refer them. A local septic pumping company is the right call for a full tank or a blocked line. Come back if a pump-out shows the system itself has failed and needs repair or replacement.
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