Policy Edit

Policy Id:

SPR/SPA:

Risk:

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

Policy Text:

To ensure the following existing and future significant drinking water threats:

a. The application and storage of agricultural source material
b. The application, handling and storage of non-agricultural source material
c. The application, handling and storage of commercial fertilizer
d. The application and storage of pesticide
e. The use of land as livestock grazing or pasturing land, an outdoor confinement area or a farm animal yard

within a Nitrate ICA with a vulnerability score of less than 10, or IPZ with a vulnerability
score equal to or greater than eight (8) cease to be or never become significant
drinking water threat, the County shall develop and implement an education and
outreach program targeted to individuals within these vulnerable areas to ensure that
the risk to municipal drinking water sources from these activities is reduced.

Monitoring Text:

BC-CW-1.9: The 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 the 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, the properties where these programs were
implemented and additional details on how the significant drinking water threat was
managed and/or ceased to be significant.