The Plant Operations and Maintenance department is responsible for all physical aspects of the buildings and properties owned by the Rainy River District School Board. This includes cleaning services, designing and constructing facilities, maintaining them, reducing waste, conserving energy, planning property use, and ensuring that all facilities and properties are well-kept. They oversee the Board’s Capital Plan, Energy Management Plan, as well as custodial and maintenance services to ensure sustainability and comfort.
Contacts
Travis Enge, Executive Officer of Facilities Services
Peter Gardiman, Assistant Manager, Plant Operations and Maintenance
Russell Ling, Assistant Manager, Health & Safety and Custodial Services
Aimee Matheson, Capital Projects Lead
Jenn Langtry, Executive Assistant
Facility Partnerships
The Facility Partnerships initiative encourages school boards to work with community partners to share facilities. For more information, visit the RRDSB Facility Partnerships web page.
Capital Projects
Visit our Capital Projects page to view information on our current projects.
Capital News
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Safe Drinking Water in Schools
Drinking Water Systems
The Rainy River District School Board has five (5) schools that get their drinking water from wells. All of our other schools are on municipal water systems. The Province's Drinking Water Systems Regulation, Ontario Regulation 170/03, requires us to regularly test the water at schools supplied by wells and provide annual reports. These reports cover all aspects of the drinking water system and include information on the performance, operation, and test results. The regular testing helps ensure that the water supply in our schools continues to be safe and of a high quality.
Bacteriological Testing Results for each school
Schedule 23 (Inorganic) and Schedule 24 (Organic) Testing Results
Adverse Water Quality Incidents
Annual Drinking Water Reports
Engineering Evaluation Reports
Safe Drinking Water in Child Care Centres and Schools
Since 2007, the Ontario government has been requiring child care centres and schools to flush the plumbing in their facilities and test their drinking water for lead. New amendments to Ontario Regulation 243/07 that take effect July 1, 2017 will now require lead testing within these facilities for all fixtures used to provide drinking water and/or prepare food or drink for children under 18. The additional testing has been completed as per regulation so that every single fixture that is used to supply drinking water to our students has been tested for lead levels. Any fixtures that were found to exceed the Ontario limit of 10 micrograms per litre of water were taken out of service until appropriate measures were taken to reduce the amount of lead out of that fixture. Appropriate measures included changing out the fixture, replacing the cold-water piping that served the fixture, or installing a lead filter if other measures were not successful. These measures were performed in consultation with the local health unit and Ministry of Environment drinking water inspectors.
Lead Flushing Records
Lead Exceedance Reports
Lead Testing Reports
Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting
Emissions Reporting 2022
RRDSB Conservation and Demand Management Plan
RRDSB - ANNUAL ENE Report 2022-2023
Kiss 'N Ride Program