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Policy Id:

SPR/SPA:

Risk:

WC-MC-23.2

Grand River

Significant

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

MECP - Wastewater/Sewage Works

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Future

Implemented

Where a source protection plan policy outcome is to manage a significant threat to drinking water sources through the prescribed instrument for sewage works, the ministry is meeting the policy’s obligations by including design and operational measures in an Environmental Compliance Approval. To assist in the implementation of this approach, anyone subject to policy requiring management of a significant drinking water threat is required to include in their application a description of the measures necessary to protect drinking water and submit a ‘Source Protection Supplementary Report’ to outline how the activity for the sewage works will be managed so that the activity will not become a significant drinking water threat.

Policy Text:

To ensure that any Recharge Reducing Activity never becomes a significant drinking water threat, where this activity would be a significant drinking water threat as prescribed by the CWA, the MECP should, during any pre-submission consultation for Environmental Compliance Approvals for Stormwater Management Facilities and / or Sewage Works, encourage design and implementation measures for the maintenance of groundwater recharge functions including but not limited to LID, minimizing impervious surfaces and lot level infiltration.

The MECP shall issue Environmental Compliance Approvals for Stormwater Management Facilities and / or Sewage Works that, where appropriate, incorporate conditions that address groundwater recharge considerations. In addition, the MECP, where appropriate, shall consider incorporating conditions in the Environmental Compliance Approvals to address the proper functioning of groundwater recharge measures including, but not limited to, conditions requiring or related to operations, inspection and maintenance of the Stormwater Management Facilities and / or Sewage Works, groundwater or surface water monitoring related to groundwater recharge, and documentation including manuals and maintenance records.

For Stormwater Management Facilities and / or Sewage Works located within the WHPA-Q in a Chloride, Sodium or Nitrate ICA, the MECP shall consider conditions that require best management practices that address how recharge will be maintained and water quality will be protected from application and storage of winter maintenance materials including Salt.

Monitoring Text:

WC-CW-1.12: Where the Source Protection Plan policies may result in amendments to 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.