Policy Edit

Policy Id:

SPR/SPA:

Risk:

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

Policy Text:

To ensure any existing or future establishment, operation or maintenance of a system that collects, stores, transmits, treats or disposes of stormwater, cease to be or never becomes a significant drinking water threat, where such an activity are, or would be, a significant drinking water threat, the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks shall review or prepare and, if necessary, amend Environmental Compliance Approvals to ensure that appropriate terms and conditions are incorporated that, when implemented, will ensure that the activity ceases to be or does not become a significant drinking water threat. Such conditions may include:

a) permitting the expansion of an existing facility where the expansion does not pose a significant drinking water threat; or
b) permitting retrofits to existing facilities where the retrofit will discharge the stormwater outside of the significant drinking water threat area.

Monitoring Text:

(DC-M-CW-1.11): Where the Source Protection Plan policies require a provincial ministry to amend a Prescribed Instrument or the issuance of a new Prescribed Instrument, the applicable Ministry shall provide a summary of the actions taken the previous year to implement the policies and provide a written report summarizing this information to the Source Protection Authority by February 1st of each year.