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Policy Id:

SPR/SPA:

Risk:

PC-20

Niagara Peninsula

Significant

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

MECP - Wastewater/Sewage Works

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Future

Implemented

Where a source protection plan policy outcome is to manage a significant threat to drinking water sources through the prescribed instrument for sewage works, the ministry is meeting the policy’s obligations by including design and operational measures in an Environmental Compliance Approval. To assist in the implementation of this approach, anyone subject to policy requiring management of a significant drinking water threat is required to include in their application a description of the measures necessary to protect drinking water and submit a ‘Source Protection Supplementary Report’ to outline how the activity for the sewage works will be managed so that the activity will not become a significant drinking water threat.

Niagara Regional Municipality of - (Municipality)

Conform with

Land Use Planning Approaches

Future

Implemented

Regional Official Plan revised and updated.

Port Colborne City of - (Municipality)

Conform with

Land Use Planning Approaches

Future

Implemented

Official Plan revised and zoning by-laws amended.

Policy Text:

No new combined sewers, wastewater treatment facilities, or industrial effluent systems shall be permitted where they would be a significant threat within the Port Colborne IPZ-1 or IPZ-2.

Monitoring Text:

M1: By February 1st of each year, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MOE) shall report to the Source Protection Authority on the steps it has taken in the previous calendar year to implement significant threat policies.

M3: By February 1st of each year, Niagara Region shall report to the Source Protection Authority on the steps it has taken in the previous calendar year to implement significant threat policies.

M6: By February 1st of each year, the City of Port Colborne shall report to the Source Protection Authority on the steps it has taken in the previous calendar year to implement the significant threat policies.