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Policy Id:

SPR/SPA:

Risk:

NC-NB-17.8

Long Point

Significant

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

MECP – Permit to Take Water

Strategic

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

Future & Existing

Implemented: Policy outcome(s) evaluated - No further action(s) required

The ministry has implemented its commitment to review and consider the policy. The High Use Watershed designations no longer apply. As part of the enhancements to the province’s water taking program to ensure our water resources are protected and used sustainably, now and for future generations, the rules governing permit decisions in high use watersheds were replaced with a new, more adaptive area-based approach to manage the cumulative effect of water takings in water quantity-stressed areas. The ministry would evaluate all available information including source protection designations, plans, and policies as part of implementing this approach.

Policy Text:

To ensure that any existing and future consumptive water taking within the WHPA-Q1 with a significant risk level ceases to be or never becomes a significant drinking water threat, the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks should use findings from the Long Point Region, Catfish Creek and Kettle Creek Tier 2 Water Quantity Stress Assessment and the Long Point Region Tier 3 Water Budget and Local Area Risk Assessment to reassess the High Water Use Designation for Norfolk County.

Monitoring Text:

N/A