Policy Text:
The following existing and future circumstances are designated for the implementation of a local significant threat activity policy:
1. The transportation of 2500 L or greater of sulphuric acid.
2. The transportation of 2500 L or greater of sodium hydroxide.
3. The transportation of any quantity of septage.
Within one year of the date the Source Protection Plan (SP Plan) takes effect, the Municipality shall recognize a spill as an emergency situation in the
emergency response plan for the Municipality that could occur as a result of the circumstances listed above. Further, the vulnerable areas to which this policy
applies shall be included as schedule(s) to the emergency response plan. When the emergency response team of the Municipality identifies that a spill has
occurred in the vulnerable area, the Source Protection Authority via the Conservation Authority shall be notified in the same way that other emergency
response partners are contacted.
Within one year of the date the SP Plan takes effect, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Spills Action Centre should review and update contact information, Procedure Cards and other information based on the areas to which this policy applies to ensure that drinking water sources will be protected in the event of a spill as a result of the circumstances listed above.
This policy shall apply in the following vulnerable areas:
Callander IPZ-1;
Mattawa WHPA-A and B;
Powassan WHPA-A and B1; and
South River IPZ-1 with the
exception of lands in Laurier Township (which are subject to LAU1).