Policy Text:
Education and Outreach Significant Threat Policies for Existing and Future Significant Threats
The goal of the policies set out below is to provide an education and outreach component for each of the existing and future significant threat policies.
This policy will provide education and outreach materials to all properties located in Intake Protection Zone 1 and Intake Protection Zone 2 to ensure that they are aware of these vulnerable areas and of the related significant threats and the associated policies. The Prescribed Drinking Water Threats and the policies to address the existing and future significant threats are listed in Table 6.1. The education and outreach component will raise awareness regarding significant drinking water threats and policies.
Table 6.1 Existing and Future Significant Threats and Policies
Threat # 1- The establishment, operation or maintenance of a waste disposal site within the meaning of Part V of the Environmental Protection Act
Waste Disposal Site - Storage of hazardous waste at disposal sites;
Waste Disposal Site - PCB waste storage related to other PCB activities;
Waste Disposal Site - Storage of wastes described in clauses (p), (q), (r), (s), (t) or (u) of the definition of a hazardous waste.
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Waste Disposal Sites - PCB waste storage related to landfills and transfer stations that would accept PCB waste
Application of untreated septage to land;
Storage, treatment and discharge of tailings from mines;
Waste disposal site - liquid industrial waste injection into a well;
Waste disposal site - landfilling (hazardous waste);
Waste disposal site - landfarming of petroleum refining waste;
Waste disposal site - landfilling (solid non-hazardous industrial or commercial);
Waste disposal site - landfilling (municipal waste);
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Threat # 2 - The establishment, operation or maintenance of a system that collects, stores, transmits, treats or disposes of sewage
Sewage- Septic System
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Sewage- Septic System
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Sewage- Lift Station
P02-1958-012512-E(LS)
Sewage- Lift Station
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Sewage System Or Sewage Works - Sewage Treatment Plant Effluent Discharges (includes lagoons);
Sewage System Or Sewage Works - Combined Sewer discharge from a stormwater outlet to surface water;
Sewage system Or Sewage Works - Discharge of Untreated Stormwater from Stormwater Retention Pond;
Sewage system Or Sewage Works - Industrial Effluent Discharges;
Sewage System Or Sewage Works - Sewage treatment plant bypass discharge to surface water;
Sewage System Or Sewage Works - Storage of Sewage (E.G. Treatment Plant Tanks);
Sewage System Or Sewage Works - Septic System Holding Tank
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Threat # 3- The application of agricultural source material to land and Threat # 4 - The storage of agricultural source material
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Threat # 4 - The storage of agricultural source material
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Threat # 6 - The application of non-agricultural source material to land Threat # 7 - The handling and storage of non-agricultural source material
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Threat # 8 - The application of commercial fertilizer to land and
Threat # 9 - The Handling and storage of commercial fertilizer
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Threat # 10 - The application of pesticide to land
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Threat # 10 - The application of pesticide to land and
Threat # 11 - The handling and storage of pesticide
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Threat # 12 - The application of road salt
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Threat # 12 - The application of road salt and
Threat # 13 - The handling and storage of road salt
P12,13-0000-062012-F
Threat # 14 - The storage of snow
P14-0000-062012-F
Threat # 15 - The handling and storage of fuel
P15-0177-062012-E-F
Threat # 16 - The handling and storage of a Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid and Threat # 17 - The handling and storage of an organic solvent
P16,17-0000-062012-F
Threat # 18 - The management of runoff that contains chemicals used in the de-icing of aircraft
P18-0000-062012-F
Threat # 21-The use of land as livestock grazing or pasturing land, an outdoor confinement area or a farm-animal yard. O. Reg. 385/08, s. 3
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This policy will establish an education and outreach component for each of the significant threats and associated policies listed above, so as to ensure that they cease to be, or never become, significant threats.
Existing and Future Education and Outreach Policy for Existing and Future Significant Threats: P-3000-062012-E-F
The Mattagami Region Conservation Authority and the City of Timmins shall:
establish an education and outreach program that will:
require an annual inventory of all properties located in Intake Protection Zone 1 and Intake Protection Zone 2;
require notification to all property owners in Intake Protection Zone 1 and Intake Protection Zone 2 that they are in a source water protection vulnerable area;
communicate the availability of mapping for the vulnerable areas to said property owners;
communicate the availability of applicable policies to said property owners;
provide educational materials and opportunities to explain to all businesses and residences in intake Protection Zone 1 and Intake Protection Zone 2 the importance of clean drinking water and how to work together to protect their drinking water from contamination.
The Mattagami Region Conservation Authority and the City of Timmins will implement this policy when the Source Protection Plan takes effect.