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 owners and operators of waste disposal sites within the meaning of Part V of the Environmental Protection Act which are 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 the following (for full circumstance details refer to the MOE Tables of Circumstances):
a) the application of septage to land (hauled sewage) or
b) the storage, treatment and discharge of tailings from mines when:
i. tailings are stored in a pit or
ii. tailings are stored in an above grade impoundment structure,
c) the landfarming of petroleum refining waste in areas that are more than 10 hectares or
d) the landfilling of: hazardous waste, liquid industrial waste, municipal waste, solid non-hazardous industrial or commercial waste or
e) the injection of liquid industrial waste into a well where the combined rate of discharge from all wells located at the site is more than 380 cubic metres per year or
f) PCB waste storage either below grade, partially below grade in a tank, or outdoors and not in an approved container or
g) the storage of hazardous waste or liquid industrial waste or
h) the storage of wastes as described in clauses (p), (q), (r), (s), (t), or (u) of the definition of hazardous waste at a site that is not approved to accept hazardous waste or liquid industrial waste.
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.