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MECP – MRDWS – Fuel Handling & Storage

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Existing

No response required/not applicable

Issues relating to water quantity and consumptive water taking are considered in the Permit to Take Water. A valid PTTW must be in place prior to a new municipal drinking water licence being issued, or an existing licence being renewed/amended.

MECP – MRDWS – Fuel Handling & Storage

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Future

No response required/not applicable

Issues relating to water quantity and consumptive water taking are considered in the Permit to Take Water. A valid PTTW must be in place prior to a new municipal drinking water licence being issued, or an existing licence being renewed/amended.

MECP – Permit to Take Water

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Existing

Implemented

As part of the current PTTW review and decision making process, the ministry uses best available science to assess the sustainability and potential impacts to municipal drinking water systems, other users, and the environment. The ministry considers relevant Source Protection policies as part of the application evaluation and review process and, where appropriate, includes conditions for new/increased permits that would constitute SDWTs to ensure protection of municipal water supplies.

MECP – Permit to Take Water

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Future

Implemented

As part of the current PTTW review and decision making process, the ministry uses best available science to assess the sustainability and potential impacts to municipal drinking water systems, other users, and the environment. The ministry considers relevant Source Protection policies as part of the application evaluation and review process and, where appropriate, includes conditions for new/increased permits that would constitute SDWTs to ensure protection of municipal water supplies.

Policy Text:

To ensure that any consumptive water taking ceases to be or never becomes a significant drinking water threat where this activity is or would be a significant drinking water threat as prescribed by the Clean Water Act, 2006, the following shall apply:

a. The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks shall review and, if necessary, amend Permits To Take Water (PTTW) and / or Drinking Water Works Permits to ensure that the municipal supply will not be adversely impacted, and to consider the Tier 3 Water Budget results including consideration of water supply requirements for planned growth and prolonged drought.

b. The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks shall issue Permits To Take Water (PTTW) and / or Drinking Water Works Permits to ensure that the municipal supply will not be adversely impacted. The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks, where appropriate, should ensure the use of the Tier 3 Water Budget model, reports and data in its evaluation of these takings including consideration of water supply requirements for planned growth and prolonged drought.

The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks shall consider the following Permit to Take Water terms and conditions that address:

i. groundwater and surface water monitoring;
ii. demand management: water needs assessment (review of permitted maximum takings) and water efficiency measures;
iii. information sharing with the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks, municipalities and conservation authorities including a condition of approval for permit holders to provide municipalities and conservation authorities technical reports and monitoring data gathered pursuant to a condition of the PTTW (as per first bullet); and
iv. drought management planning for drought sensitive wells / systems.

Monitoring Text:

RW-CW-1.12: Where the Source Protection Plan policies require a Provincial Ministry to undertake an activity under the Environmental Compliance Approval process or review, issue or amend a Prescribed Instrument, the applicable Provincial Ministry should:

a. Provide a copy of the Prescribed Instruments to the Regional Municipality of Waterloo;

b. Provide a written report to the Region of Waterloo and the Source Protection Authority summarizing where Prescribed Instruments have been issued and/or amended and for each instrument a summary of the conditions included for source protection purposes.