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Policy Id:

SPR/SPA:

Risk:

5.3.2-NB

Cataraqui

Non-specific

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

Conservation Authority

Strategic

Specify Actions to be taken to implement plan or achieve its objectives

Future & Existing

Implemented: Policy outcome(s) evaluated - No further action(s) required

CRCA staff developed a proposal to expand the groundwater monitoring network within the CSPA (being considered by the province). No additional wells have been constructed and included in the network.

Policy Text:

The Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority, in cooperation with the Ministry of the Environment, should expand the existing Provincial Groundwater Monitoring Network within the jurisdiction of the Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority to ensure that data on fluctuating water levels for all main bedrock aquifer units in the Cataraqui Source Protection Area is gathered on an on-going basis to assess the impact of climate change in the highly vulnerable aquifers and significant groundwater recharge areas.

The network should be expanded to include monitoring wells in the following bedrock units and municipalities, as originally included in the monitoring network plan (Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority, 2002):

Gull River Formation: Member D in the City of Kingston
March Formation in the Township of Front of Yonge
Precambrian Shield (coarse-grained) in the Township of Leeds and the Thousand Islands

The Cataraqui Region Conservation Authority and the Ministry of the Environment should work to expand the network within two years of the Source Protection Plan taking effect.

Monitoring Text:

N/A.