Policy Edit

Policy Id:

SPR/SPA:

Risk:

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

Policy Text:

The use of land for waste disposal (future) shall be prohibited where the storage or generation of waste would be a significant drinking water threat at the following types of waste disposal sites:

a) Storage, treatment, and discharge of tailings from mines;
b) Landfarming of petroleum refining waste;
c) Landfilling (hazardous waste);
d) Landfilling (municipal waste);
e) Landfilling (solid non-hazardous industrial or commercial waste);
f) Liquid industrial waste injection into a well;
g) Storage of hazardous or liquid industrial waste (at large facilities such as landfills and transfer stations);
h) Storage of wastes described in clauses (p), (q), (r), (s), (t) or (u) of the definition of hazardous waste, or in clause (d) of the definition of liquid industrial waste
(at large facilities such as landfills and transfer stations).

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.