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FUEL-1-CTC

Central Lake Ontario, Credit Valley, Toronto

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MECP – MRDWS – Fuel Handling & Storage

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Existing

Implemented

All municipal drinking water permissions where fuel storage and handling has been identified as a significant threat contain conditions to manage the threat and typically require the Owner to undertake an annual TSSA inspection of their fuel-oil system. To better manage ongoing alterations to fuel oil systems at municipal drinking water systems, during this round of renewals (occurring between 2024 and 2027), updated standard source protection conditions are being rolled out to all municipal drinking water permissions to address fuel storage and handling significant drinking water threats and ensure they reflect the most current version of the Directors Technical Rules under the Clean Water Act. The updated conditions will preauthorize alterations to fuel storage and handing at municipal drinking water systems under the condition the owner assesses all new and existing fuel storage and handling against the most current Technical Rules to identify if fuel storage and handling associated with the drinking water system is a significant drinking water threat. The conditions require documentation of the fuel storage assessment, implementation of annual TSSA inspections for any identified fuel storage significant threats, and require the owner to implement any additional source protection policies identified by their local source protection plan. The fuel storage assessments are to be reviewed regularly to ensure they remain up to date and conform to current policies. To date, 287 municipal drinking water licences have been renewed throughout the province, and contain these updated conditions. For those permissions that have not yet been renewed, alterations to fuel storage and handling are not yet preauthorized and still require an application to the ministry before they can proceed. These applications will continue to be reviewed by the ministry to determine if fuel storage or handling activities are being proposed and if these activities present a significant threat based on the most current Technical Rules. Where a significant threat is identified, conditions are added to the prescribed instrument (Drinking Water Works Permit or Municipal Drinking Water Licence) to address source protection plan policies, and typically include the requirement for the owner to undertake an annual TSSA inspection of the their fuel-oil system.

MECP – MRDWS – Fuel Handling & Storage

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Future

Implemented

All municipal drinking water permissions where fuel storage and handling has been identified as a significant threat contain conditions to manage the threat and typically require the Owner to undertake an annual TSSA inspection of their fuel-oil system. To better manage ongoing alterations to fuel oil systems at municipal drinking water systems, during this round of renewals (occurring between 2024 and 2027), updated standard source protection conditions are being rolled out to all municipal drinking water permissions to address fuel storage and handling significant drinking water threats and ensure they reflect the most current version of the Directors Technical Rules under the Clean Water Act. The updated conditions will preauthorize alterations to fuel storage and handing at municipal drinking water systems under the condition the owner assesses all new and existing fuel storage and handling against the most current Technical Rules to identify if fuel storage and handling associated with the drinking water system is a significant drinking water threat. The conditions require documentation of the fuel storage assessment, implementation of annual TSSA inspections for any identified fuel storage significant threats, and require the owner to implement any additional source protection policies identified by their local source protection plan. The fuel storage assessments are to be reviewed regularly to ensure they remain up to date and conform to current policies. To date, 287 municipal drinking water licences have been renewed throughout the province, and contain these updated conditions. For those permissions that have not yet been renewed, alterations to fuel storage and handling are not yet preauthorized and still require an application to the ministry before they can proceed. These applications will continue to be reviewed by the ministry to determine if fuel storage or handling activities are being proposed and if these activities present a significant threat based on the most current Technical Rules. Where a significant threat is identified, conditions are added to the prescribed instrument (Drinking Water Works Permit or Municipal Drinking Water Licence) to address source protection plan policies, and typically include the requirement for the owner to undertake an annual TSSA inspection of the their fuel-oil system.

Policy Text:

Where the handling and storage of fuel at a municipal wellhead is in an area where the activity is, or would be, a significant drinking water threat, drinking water licences under the Safe Drinking Water Act shall be reviewed to ensure that appropriate terms and conditions are included so that the activity ceases to be, or does not become, a significant drinking water threat in any of the following areas:

WHPA-A (existing, future); or
WHPA-B (VS = 10) (existing, future); or
WHPA-E (VS = 10) (existing, future).

Timelines:
T-1: Prescribed Instruments (existing) shall be reviewed (and amended, as necessary) within 3 years of the date the Source Protection Plan takes effect, or such other date as the Director determines.
T-3: The relevant Ministry shall comply with the Prescribed Instrument policy (future) immediately upon the date the Source Protection Plan takes effect.

Monitoring Text:

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.