Permits granted by MRC Brome-Missisquoi
The MRC is responsible for granting permits for projects that require work on a watercourse and for granting certificates of approval for commercial tree cutting only.
Before filling out a tree cutting request, be sure to check your municipality’s bylaws on zoning, permits and certificates. View your municipality’s profile for contact information (scroll down to Bylaws on tree cutting).
Also, please note that the forest service is mandated to grant certificates of approval for commercial tree cutting under an intermunicipal agreement. We currently serve eight municipal members: Bolton-Ouest, Brigham, Cowansville, Dunham, Frelighsburg, Brome Lake, Saint-Armand and Sutton.
If your municipality is not part of the intermunicipal agreement or if your request is for tree cutting in urban or residential areas, please reach out to your municipality directly.
Your municipality is responsible for granting permits for urban planning projects (residential, commercial and industrial). Please contact your municipality if you’d like a permit for:
- Construction
- Renovation and expansion
- Sheds, garages or other additional buildings
- Swimming pools
- Septic systems
- Wells and geothermal systems
- Demolition
- Filling, excavation, retaining walls and drainage
Please select your permit request
If your request concerns:
- A request for building/installing/improving a bridge or culvert
- A project that could increase peak flow
Please login to the Client space to complete your request.
Otherwise, please select one of the permits below.
Select a permit
FAQ
Thirty days once the employee handling the request has all the necessary information. If additional documents are requested, that 30-day period starts over once those documents are received.
| Watercourse operations | Fees (not taxable) | Renewal fees |
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| Temporary or permanent culvert installation |
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| Underground or surface structures that cross a watercourse, requiring machinery to pass over the watercourse or improvements to temporary or permanent structures on the banks of or in the watercourse |
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| Project implementation that impacts a watercourse’s peak flow |
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| Fords |
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| Bank or shore stabilization |
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(1) When the property owner is required to pay the actual cost of expenses incurred for the studies required for the permit request, the final payment request should include all supporting documentation of this actual cost.
| Type of work | Fees (not taxable)(2) | Reimbursable deposit |
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| Watercourse maintenance |
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| Watercourse improvement(2) |
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Fees include the MRC’s management fees and cost of work, site supervision and studies for the request.
(2) For improvements benefitting an individual, requests must include a written statement from the individual agreeing to pay all fees, including the certificate of approval request, regulations, work, supervision and any other related expenses.
The MRC issues permits for culverts with openings less than 120 cm in diameter. Contact your municipality for a permit if the opening of your culvert is greater than or equal to 120 cm or less than 450 cm in diameter.
You can submit a clean-up request to the MRC when a watercourse poses a safety problem to people or property.
Call your municipal government. The municipal inspector will conduct a site visit. If the beaver dam poses a safety problem to people or property, it may be removed. Be sure to obtain all the necessary permitting (SEM licence from the MFFP).
Bylaws on watercourses
Before filling out a permit request for a project requiring work on a watercourse, please review Règlement 04-0416 relatif à l’écoulement des eaux des cours d’eau situés sur le territoire de la MRC Brome-Missisquoi [Bylaw 04-0416 on watercourse drainage in the MRC Brome-Missisquoi region] (BYLAW 04-0416 – Appendices E and F).
Bylaws on tree cutting
Before filling out a permit request for tree cutting, please review your municipality’s bylaws on zoning, permits and certificates. View your municipality’s profile to find their contact information.