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T-67-S

Halton Region, Hamilton Region

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MECP - Spills Response

Strategic

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

Existing

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Spill response and notification procedures have been updated to geo-spatially determine if the spill is in a source protection vulnerable area. These new procedures ensure that if a spill has the potential to impact a drinking water treatment plant, the plant is notified along with any other affected parties. The source protection information atlas (SPIA), the online mapping tool, has been made available to the Spills Action Centre, among others, which displays the location of source protection vulnerable areas to incorporate into their business process.

Policy Text:

Where the establishment and operation of a liquid hydrocarbon pipeline is an existing significant threat to drinking water sources, and where the discharges from sewage treatment plants and the handling and storage of fuel, are an existing significant threat to Lake Ontario drinking water sources,

a. the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks shall provide mapping of intake protection zones three and the locations of known significant threats to the Spills Action Centre, and if necessary modify procedures to ensure that the operators of all water treatment plants that could be affected by a spill are notified.

Monitoring Text:

T-67-S-b. by February 1 of each year, the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks shall prepare and submit to the Source Protection Authority a report summarizing their actions for the previous year, including the number, type, and location of spills reported within intake protection zones three, adjusted thresholds, and actions taken or recommended to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the spill reporting system.