Policy Text:
Within one year of the Plan coming into effect, municipalities, in collaboration with the lead Source Protection Authority (SPA), shall implement an outreach and education program, developed by the lead SPA, for delivery to all landowners within their jurisdiction storing (for any period of time), or handling fuel where it is a significant drinking water threat within a wellhead protection area where the vulnerability score is 10. This includes, for example, but is not limited to (for full circumstance details refer to the MOE Tables of Circumstances):
a.) below grade or partially below grade storage of fuel where the quantity is greater than 250 litres, or
b.) above grade storage or handling of fuel where the quantity is greater than 2500 litres
The outreach and education program is intended to help inform affected landowners of risks to sources of local municipal drinking water and help identify means by which such risks can be minimized.