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SPR/SPA:

Risk:

R.4.6, A.4.6, C.4.6

Ausable Bayfield, Maitland Valley

Significant

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

MECP - Wastewater/Sewage Works

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Existing

Implemented

Ministry staff have completed the review and screening process to identify previously issued Environmental Compliance Approvals for sewage works located in vulnerable areas where prescribed instrument policies may apply with the initial source protection plan approvals. However, the ministry continues to identify and review new existing Environmental Compliance Approvals as a result of source protection plan amendments on an annual basis. For those existing instruments that were screened by the Ministry and subject to existing threat prescribed instrument policies, the existing instruments had been reviewed to determine if the Standard Operating Policy can be applied or if amendments are needed to protect municipal drinking water sources.

Policy Text:

Within three years of the Plan coming into effect the Ontario Ministry of the Environment shall review and amend as required all existing Environmental Compliance Approvals issued for sewage systems and sewage works where they 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) 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.

The Environmental Compliance Approval shall include terms and conditions which when implemented will adequately manage the risk to sources of municipal drinking water.

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.