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R.5.4, A.5.4, C.5.4

Ausable Bayfield, Maitland Valley

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MECP – WDS – Hauled Sewage, Biosolids

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Prescribed Instruments

Existing

Implemented

Since May 2015, the ministry screens all (including new and existing) hauled sewage, processed organic waste, and biosolids disposal site Environmental Compliance Approval applications in accordance with Source Water Protection Plans. This includes consideration of whether the proposed activity would be a drinking water threat as outlined in the relevant Source Water Protection Plan under the Clean Water Act. The ministry will not issue an Environmental Compliance Approval for a site deemed as a significant drinking water threat. For sites deemed as a low or moderate drinking water threat, the ministry will consider the application, but additional site restrictions may apply. The ministry’s review and approval process is included in the Standard Operating Procedure that can be found in Environmental Registry No. 012-2968 (https://ero.ontario.ca/archive/012-2968).

MECP - WDS - Landfilling and Storage

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Existing

Implemented

If an approved activity is deemed a significant drinking water threat, the ministry will review the activity and the ECA to determine if changes are needed to meet the intent of the source protection policies. The ministry addresses drinking water threat activities that are regulated by ministry approvals and permits on a consistent province-wide basis.

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 waste disposal sites within the meaning of Part V of the Environmental Protection Act which are a significant drinking water threat within wellhead protection areas with a 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) 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 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.