Policy Text:
The municipality shall deliver education and outreach materials and programs where the application, handling and storage of commercial fertilizer is, or would be, a significant drinking water threat, targeted towards:
a) an individual for personal use to promote timely fertilizer application and best management practices in urban settings; and
b) owners/tenants of non-agriculturally zoned lands to promote best management practices to safeguard water supplies from drinking water threats; in any of the following areas:
WHPA-A (existing, future); or
WHPA-B (VS = 10) (existing, future); or
WHPA-E (VS = 9 for application; VS = 10 for handling and storage) (existing, future); or
the remainder of an Issue Contributing Area for Nitrates (existing, future).
Where education and outreach materials prepared by the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks are available, the municipality shall deliver those materials.
Timeline:
T-10: Education and outreach (materials, programs, etc.) shall be developed and implemented within 2 years from the date the Source Protection Plan takes effect.