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Risk:

P01-0000-120413-F

Mattagami

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Implementing Body

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Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

MECP – WDS – Hauled Sewage, Biosolids

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Future

Implemented

Since May 2015, the ministry screens all (including new and existing) hauled sewage, processed organic waste, and biosolids disposal site Environmental Compliance Approval applications in accordance with Source Water Protection Plans. This includes consideration of whether the proposed activity would be a drinking water threat as outlined in the relevant Source Water Protection Plan under the Clean Water Act. The ministry will not issue an Environmental Compliance Approval for a site deemed as a significant drinking water threat. For sites deemed as a low or moderate drinking water threat, the ministry will consider the application, but additional site restrictions may apply. The ministry’s review and approval process is included in the Standard Operating Procedure that can be found in Environmental Registry No. 012-2968 (https://ero.ontario.ca/archive/012-2968).

MECP - WDS - Landfilling and Storage

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Future

Implemented

At the secondary screening stage, ministry staff use the ECA application, other project-specific documents, the Source Protection Information Atlas online mapping tool, and the 2021 Technical Rules to determine if the proposed activity poses a significant drinking water threat (SDWT) activity. Where the proposed activity is assessed as posing a SDWT activity, the MECP’s Standard Operating Policy (SOP) related to the design and/or operational requirements and the applicable source protection plan (SPP) are referenced to inform the decision to be taken to ensure the new or amended ECA conforms with the applicable prescribed instrument (PI) policy to either manage or prohibit the activity.

Timmins City of - (RMO)

Conform with

Section 57 Prohibition

Future

Implemented

Policy Text:

The establishment, operation or maintenance of a waste disposal site within the meaning of Part V of the Environmental Protection Act is designated for the purpose of Section 57 of the Clean Water Act, and is therefore prohibited where the threat would be significant, for the following threat sub-category:

- waste disposal site - PCB waste storage related to landfills and transfer stations that would accept PCB wastes.

The Risk Management Official is responsible for implementing this policy when the Source Protection Plan takes effect.

For all properties where the establishment, operation or maintenance of a waste disposal site within the meaning of Part V of the Environmental Protection Act is in an area where the threat would be significant, for the following threat sub-categories:

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);

The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks shall ensure that the Environmental Compliance Approval that governs the waste disposal includes appropriate terms and conditions to ensure that the waste disposal never becomes a significant drinking water threat.

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

Monitoring Text:

(P01-0000-120413-M):
For all properties where PCB waste disposal sites related to landfills and transfer stations that
accept PCB wastes, would be a significant drinking water threat, the Risk Management Official
shall:
• prepare an annual summary of the actions it has taken to achieve the outcomes of the future policy P01-0000-120413-F and make that report available to the Mattagami Region Source Protection Authority.
The Risk Management Official will implement this policy when the Source Protection Plan takes effect.

For all properties where the application of untreated septage to land; the storage, treatment and discharge of tailings from mines; the injection of liquid industrial waste into a well; landfilling (hazardous waste); landfarming of petroleum refining waste; landfilling (solid non-hazardous industrial or commercial); and landfilling (municipal waste); 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 P01-0000-120413-F and make that report available to the Mattagami Region Source Protection Authority.
The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks will implement this policy when the Source Protection Plan takes effect.