{
 "municipality_id": "gx-003131",
 "municipality": "Cape Breton",
 "status_type": "Regional municipality",
 "jurisdiction": "Nova Scotia",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "water_sewer",
 "label": "Water & sewer",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-05",
 "official_website": "http://www.cbrm.ns.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Wastewater Discharge By-law No. W-100 (amended to March 26, 2024)",
   "category": "water_sewer",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2024-03-26",
   "document_url": "https://cbrm.ns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/W-100-Wastewater-Discharge-By-law-with-Amendments-to-March-26-2024.pdf",
   "summary": "Regulates discharge of wastewater into CBRM public sewers and recovery of costs; amended to March 26 2024.",
   "capture_sha256": "76885aad99c387488821f526b2bd4d45f575052409a7c84bf18a977529c30851",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-05T05:14:55+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/76885aad99c387488821f526b2bd4d45f575052409a7c84bf18a977529c30851.pdf",
   "facts": {
    "connection_mandatory": true,
    "billing_basis": "Quarterly base rate by water meter size plus volumetric wastewater discharge rate ($0.78 per cubic meter) based on metered water consumption"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "connection_mandatory": "s. 2(2)",
    "billing_basis": "s. 19(3); Schedule A"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/ns/cape-breton/water-sewer/text-76885aad99c3/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/ns/cape-breton/water-sewer/"
}