Policy Edit

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Policy Text:

To ensure the Existing and Future application or handling and storage of commercial fertilizer cease to be or never become significant drinking water threats, where these activities are or would be significant drinking water threats, the Municipality shall develop and implement an education and outreach program targeted towards:

a. An individual for personal or family use to promote timely fertilizer application and best management practices in urban settings; and
b. Agricultural lands and non-agricultural lands to promote best management practices to safeguard water supplies from drinking water threats.

Monitoring Text:

WC-CW-1.9: The municipality and/or County shall provide a report to the Source Protection Authority, by February 1st of each year, summarizing the actions taken to implement the Source Protection Plan policies, where specifically required by the policies.

Where the municipality and/or County is required to implement education and outreach programs as the primary means of managing the risk associated with significant drinking water threats, the report must indicate, at minimum additional details on how the significant drinking water threat was managed and/or ceased to be significant.