Policy Edit

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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.

Monitoring Text:

MON-1: The municipality or planning approval authority shall, by February 1 of each year, prepare and submit a report equivalent to s. 65 of O. Reg. 287/07 under the Clean Water Act, 2006 to the Source Protection Authority on the actions taken in the previous calendar year to achieve the outcomes of the source protection policy. Where applicable, municipal planning authorities shall provide a copy of the notice of adoption of amendments to official plans and/or zoning by laws. Reporting shall include information related to the effectiveness of the policies in ensuring a threat ceases to be, or does not become significant, and any actions required to respond to a drinking water threat during the reporting period.

MON-4: The provincial ministry shall, by February 1 of each year, prepare and submit a report to the Source Protection Authority on the actions taken in the previous calendar year to achieve the outcomes of the source protection policy. Reporting shall include information related to the effectiveness of the policies in ensuring a threat ceases to be, or does not become significant, and any actions required to respond to a drinking water threat during the reporting period.