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SPR/SPA:

Risk:

P02-0000-112713-F

Mattagami

Significant

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

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:

Future development requiring approval under Section 53 of the Ontario Water Resources Act, for sewage systems or sewage works related to:

sewage treatment plant effluent discharges (includes lagoons);
combined sewer discharge from a storm water outlet to surface water;
sewage treatment plant bypass discharge to surface water;

will be prohibited in Intake Protection Zone 1 and Intake Protection Zone 2, where this activity would be a significant threat.

Future development requiring approval under Section 53 of the Ontario Water Resources Act, for the following threat sub-categories:

discharge of untreated storm water from storm water retention ponds;
industrial effluent discharges;
storage of sewage (e.g. treatment plant tanks);
septic system holding tank;

will be managed in Intake Protection Zone 1 and Intake Protection Zone 2, where this activity would be a significant threat.

The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks will implement this policy when the Source Protection Plan takes effect.

Monitoring Text:

(P02-0000-112713-M): 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 source protection plan policy and make that report available to the Mattagami Region Source Protection Authority.

The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks is responsible for implementing this policy by the first day of February following the year when the Source Protection Plan takes effect.

P02-1958-062012-M(LS): Policy for Monitoring the Implementation of the Existing and Future Significant Threat Policies:

For all properties located in Intake Protection Zone 1, the City of Timmins shall:
a) notify the Mattagami Region Source Protection Authority when back-up pumps and back-up power supplies have been installed or when approved contingency measures
have been implemented;
b) notify the Mattagami Region Source Protection Authority when Zoning By-laws are enacted or when amendments to Zoning By-laws, which are related to this policy, have
been developed and implemented.

The City of Timmins is responsible for implementing part a) this policy within three years of when the Source Protection Plan takes effect. The City of Timmins will implement part b) of this policy as per the requirements to update the Official Plan and Zoning By-law as described in section 6.1.