Policy Edit

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Policy Text:

To ensure that any Consumptive Water Taking and/or any Recharge Reducing Activity cease to be or never become significant drinking water threats, where these activities are or would be significant drinking water threats as prescribed by the CWA, the Township of Centre Wellington shall: develop, maintain and implement a long-term monitoring program of groundwater and surface water systems to assess potential groundwater and/or surface water impacts from Consumptive Water Takings and/or Recharge Reducing Activities within the Centre Wellington WHPA-Q. The design and implementation of this monitoring program shall consider the recommendations from the Centre Wellington Tier 3 Study, the Centre Wellington Water Supply Master Plan, future municipal exploratory drilling programs, Class Environmental Assessments for municipal wells, municipal wellfield capacity studies and / or other studies required through the Centre Wellington PTTW / Drinking Water Works Permit. The development, maintenance and implementation of this program, where possible shall be carried out by the Township of Centre Wellington in collaboration with the County, other potentially affected Municipalities, the MECP and the GRCA.

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.