Policy Text:
The Ministry of Transportation, in collaboration with the Ministry of the Environment and in consultation with Source Protection Authorities, should design a sign to meet the appropriate Provincial standards to identify the locations of wellhead protection areas and intake protection zones.
The Ministry of Transportation should manufacture, install and maintain the signs along Provincial Highways within Wellhead Protection Areas with a vulnerability score of 10, and within Intake Protection Zones with a vulnerability score of 8 or higher.
The Ministry of Transportation should consider installing and maintaining the signs along Highway 33, where there is provincial jurisdiction, within the A.L. Dafoe, Bath, Fairfield and Sandhurst Shores Intake Protection Zones.
Municipalities would be responsible for the purchase, installation and maintenance of appropriate signs designed by the Province in collaboration with the Source Protection Authorities. These signs should be placed, at a minimum, where municipal arterial roads are located within Wellhead Protection Areas or Intake Protection Zones.
The above policy should be implemented within two years of the Plan taking effect.