Policy Text:
Where the future establishment of waste disposal sites within the meaning of Part V of the Environmental Protection Act would be a significant drinking water threat,
a. the City of Hamilton shall prohibit through amendments to Planning
Act tools the establishment of waste disposal sites with the following
specific activities occurring - application of untreated septage to
land; storage, treatment and discharge of tailings from mines;
landfarming of petroleum refining waste; landfilling of hazardous
waste; landfilling of municipal waste; landfilling of solid, nonhazardous,
industrial or commercial waste; injection of liquid waste
into a well; polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) waste storage; and
storage of hazardous waste.