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Halton Region, Hamilton Region

Significant

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

Halton, Regional Municipality of - (Municipality)

Strategic

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

Future & Existing

Implemented

Hamilton City of - (Municipality)

Strategic

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

Future & Existing

Implemented

There are no existing or potential SDWT in urban area in the vicinity of transport pathways. However municipal water connections are available to the residents within urban area and the planning policies require the residents to decommission the abandoned wells once they connect to municipal water.

Niagara Regional Municipality of - (Municipality)

Strategic

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

Future & Existing

No response required/not applicable

Niagara Region provides drinking water to area municipalities. Area municipalities are the water service provider to consumers within the urban area.

Peel, Regional Municipality of - (Municipality)

Strategic

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

Future & Existing

Implemented

The Region of Peel’s local improvements process – any property owner in the Region may initiate a local improvement with a letter of request or application for municipal servicing. The local improvement project must meet certain requirements for approval e.g., the project must be technically and financially feasible.

Policy Text:

To achieve the intent of the Clean Water Act, 2006, that drinking water threats identified in the vicinity of a transport pathway cease to be or do not become a significant threat, and that a pathway ceases to endanger the source water of a municipal water supply, the following policies apply:

e. The municipalities are requested to develop a program to facilitate, where possible and appropriate, the connection to municipal water services of current private well users within the urban area. The users should be required to decommission the unused wells in accordance with Ontario Regulation 903.

Monitoring Text:

N/A