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Risk:

G-2-F

Quinte

Non-specific

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

MECP - Spills Response

Strategic

Specify Actions to be taken to implement plan or achieve its objectives

Future & Existing

Implemented

Spill response and notification procedures have been updated to geo-spatially determine if the spill is in a source protection vulnerable area. These new procedures ensure that if a spill has the potential to impact a drinking water treatment plant, the plant is notified along with any other affected parties.

Policy Text:

The Ministry of the Environment and the Spills Action Centre should update spill response procedures and emergency response plans for the purpose of protecting drinking water sources within a wellhead protection area or intake protection zone along highways, railway lines, and shipping lanes.

Implementer: Ministry of the Environment

Applicable Areas: This policy applies to the following areas:

All vulnerable areas where the release of contaminants in an IPZ or WHPA could result in contamination of the drinking water supply.

Tools: Specify Action (Section 26(6) of Ontario Regulation 287/07).

Legal Effect: Strategic (See Appendix C, List J)

Effective Date: Within one year of the Plan taking effect.

Monitoring Policy (See Appendix C, List J):

The Ministry of the Environment should submit a report by February 1st of each year to the Quinte Source Protection Authority summarizing how plans and procedures were updated and any occurrence of spills in the vulnerable areas.

Monitoring Text:

G-2-F: The Ministry shall prepare an annual summary of the actions it has taken to achieve the outcomes of this Source Protection Plan policy and make that report available to the Quinte Source Protection Authority February 1st each year. It is recommended this annual report include any occurrence of spills in the vulnerable areas.