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SPR/SPA:

Risk:

R.4.1, A.4.1, C.4.1

Ausable Bayfield, Maitland Valley

Significant

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

MECP - Wastewater/Sewage Works

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Future

Implemented

Where a source protection plan policy outcome is to manage a significant threat to drinking water sources through the prescribed instrument for sewage works, the ministry is meeting the policy’s obligations by including design and operational measures in an Environmental Compliance Approval. To assist in the implementation of this approach, anyone subject to policy requiring management of a significant drinking water threat is required to include in their application a description of the measures necessary to protect drinking water and submit a ‘Source Protection Supplementary Report’ to outline how the activity for the sewage works will be managed so that the activity will not become a significant drinking water threat.

Policy Text:

Unless otherwise stated, for those lands located within a wellhead protection area where the vulnerability score is 10, future sewage systems or sewage works where they would be a significant drinking water threat, will not be permitted. This includes, for example, but is not limited to the following (for full circumstance details refer to the MOE Tables of Circumstances);
a) a stormwater management facility handling run-off from more than 100 ha. or
b) sewage treatment plant effluent discharges (includes lagoons) that discharges to land or surface water through a means other than a designed bypass or
c) a sewage treatment tank or sewage holding tank that is part of a wastewater collection facility or a wastewater treatment facility.

Monitoring Text:

Policy P.12.8 – Monitoring Policy for Prescribed Instrument Policies
Where a policy of this Plan prescribes the use of a prescribed instrument under the purview of the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, by February 1 of each year, the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change shall prepare and submit to the Source Protection Authority an annual summary of the action it has taken to implement policies