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SPR/SPA:

Risk:

PC-16

Niagara Peninsula

Significant

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

MECP - Wastewater/Sewage Works

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Existing

Implemented

Since May 2015, the Ministry has been screening environmental compliance approval (ECA) applications to determine if the activity is located in an area where the activity could be a significant drinking water threat. This is called the “primary screening”. Based on a set of criteria, an ECA application is flagged for a more detailed ‘secondary screening’ to determine if the activity associated with the application is a significant drinking water threat.

MECP - Wastewater/Sewage Works

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Future

Implemented

Since May 2015, the Ministry has been screening environmental compliance approval (ECA) applications to determine if the activity is located in an area where the activity could be a significant drinking water threat. This is called the “primary screening”. Based on a set of criteria, an ECA application is flagged for a more detailed ‘secondary screening’ to determine if the activity associated with the application is a significant drinking water threat.

Policy Text:

Where an existing or future stormwater management system is in the Port Colborne IPZ-1 or IPZ-2 and the activity is, or would be, a significant drinking water threat, the Ministry of the Environment shall ensure that the Environmental Compliance Approval that governs the stormwater management system includes appropriate terms and conditions to ensure that the stormwater management system:
a) Existing, ceases to be a significant drinking water threat; or
b) Future, never becomes a significant drinking threat.

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.