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 owners and operators of sewage systems or sewage works which are a significant drinking water threat.

Within a wellhead protection area with a vulnerability score of 10 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) sanitary sewers and related pipes that collect, store, transmit, treat or dispose of sewage but does not include any part of a facility that is a sewage storage tank or works used to carry out a designed bypass or
c) sewage treatment plant effluent discharges (includes lagoons) that discharges to land or surface water through a means other than a designed bypass or
d) a sewage treatment tank or sewage holding tank that is part of a wastewater collection facility or a wastewater treatment facility.

Within a wellhead protection area with a vulnerability score of 8, this includes for example but is not limited to the following (for full circumstance details refer to the MOE Tables of Circumstances):

a) a sewage treatment tank or sewage holding tank that is part of a wastewater collection facility or wastewater treatment facility and where a spill may result in the release of vinyl chloride or a DNAPL that could degrade to a vinyl chloride.

The outreach and education program is intended to inform affected owners, and operators, of the potential risks to sources of local municipal drinking water and help identify means by which such risks can be minimized.

Policy P.12.9 – Monitoring Policy for Policies where a Conservation Authority or Source Protection Authority is named as an Implementing Body
Where a policy of this Plan prescribes that the Conservation Authority or Source Protection Authority shall undertake an implementing action, the Authority shall, by February 1 of each year, prepare and submit to the Source Protection Authority a report in a form to be established, summarizing their actions and results for the previous year.

Policy P.12.10 – Monitoring Policy for Policies where a Municipality or Principal Authority is named as an Implementing Body
By February 01, 2016, and then thereafter annually by February 01, where a policy of this plan prescribes that a municipality or a principal authority shall undertake an implementing action, the municipality and the principal authority shall complete and submit to the Source Protection Authority, the monitoring report in a form to be established (this includes reporting from Risk Management Officials).