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Risk:

P02-0000-112713-F(SS)

Mattagami

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Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

Health Unit

Conform with

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

Future

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MECP - Wastewater/Sewage Works

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Future

Implemented

Based on criteria, the prescribed instrument application may be flagged for a more detailed ‘secondary screening’ to determine if the activity associated with the application is a significant drinking water threat. If yes, the appropriate standard operating policy is applied. As legally required, where a source protection policy that relies on a prescribed instrument to prohibit an activity that is a significant drinking water threat, the ministry is conforming to the policy by refusing to issue an instrument for the activity.

Policy Text:

For future development on all properties located in Intake Protection Zone 1, for septic systems with a design flow of less than or equal to 10,000 litres, the Porcupine Health Unit shall implement and administer the mandatory on-site sewage system maintenance inspection program.

The Porcupine Health Unit is responsible for implementing this policy within five years of January 1, 2011 or by January 1, 2016 as required by the Building Code Act.

For future development requiring approval under the Ontario Water Resources Act, septic systems with a design flow of greater than 10,000 litres per day will be prohibited in Intake Protection Zone 1, where this activity would be a significant threat. The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks is responsible for implementing this policy when the Source Protection Plan takes effect.

Monitoring Text:

Policy for Monitoring the Implementation of the Existing and Future Significant Threat Policies: P02-1956-112713-M(SS):
For all properties with septic systems in Intake Protection Zone 1, the Porcupine Health Unit (PHU) shall:
• provide an annual report to the Mattagami Region Source Protection Authority regarding the implementation of the existing policy P02-1956-112713-E(SS) and future policy P02- 0000-112713-F(SS);
• the report will include:
• the number of inspections completed;
• the number of failure and remediation notices distributed; and
• the number of compliance orders issued.
The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks shall prepare an annual summary of the actions it has taken to achieve the outcomes of the future policy P02-0000-112713-F(SS) and make that report available to the Mattagami Region Source Protection Authority.

The Porcupine Health Unit and the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks are responsible for implementing this policy by the first day of February of the year following the implementation of the existing policy: P02-1956-112713-E(SS) and the future policy: P02-0000-112713-F(SS).