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Risk:
GENERAL-11
Raisin Region, South Nation
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Legal Effect
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MTO - Signage
Strategic
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
MTO and MECP worked together on the Vulnerable Area Road Sign initiative to identify drinking water protection zones in Source Protection Areas (SPAs) across Ontario. Sign design and supporting implementation policy was led by MTO in consultation with the MECP and Source Protection chairs/project managers. In October 2015, MECP provided all SPAs with the final MTO sign design for use on Ontario’s provincial and municipal roads. This portion of the policy is deemed completed. MTO manufactured signs for all source protection regions. The ministry reviewed requests for signs located on provincial highways, submitted by source protection chairs through the MECP, and conducted a safety assessment to ensure sign locations were in accordance with provincial standards for sign placement. MTO sought input from SPAs (through MECP) and provided notice of the approximate locations where provincial highway signs were to be installed in their source protection region. Signs have been installed at 128 identified locations (includes all Source Protection Regions/Areas) on provincial highways. MTO will maintain the signs installed along provincial highways as part of provincial highway infrastructure. All 10 signs approved for this region have been installed. Sign Locations: Hwy 401 Eastbound, 1 km West of 3rd Line Road overpass Hwy 401 Westbound, 600m West of 3rd Line Road overpass Hwy 138 Southbound, 125m North of McLean Road Hwy 138 Northbound, 830m North of Gravel hill Road Hwy 401 Eastbound, 100m West of Merwin Lane overpass Hwy 401 Westbound, 475m West of Edward St N overpass Hwy 401 Westbound, 625m West of RR 31 Hwy 401 Eastbound, 970m West of Flagg Road Hwy 417 Eastbound, 300m West of Rockdale Road/St. Guillaume Rd. Hwy 417 Westbound, 1.5km East of Principale Street
Alfred and Plantagenet Township of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
Augusta Township of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
Casselman Village of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
Champlain Township of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
Clarence-Rockland City of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
Cornwall City of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
East Hawkesbury Township of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
Edwardsburgh/Cardinal Township of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
Elizabethtown-Kitley Township of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
Hawkesbury Town of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
North Dundas Township of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
North Glengarry Township of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
North Grenville Municipality of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
North Stormont Township of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
Ottawa City of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
Prescott Town of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
Russell Township of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
South Dundas Township of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
South Glengarry Township of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
South Stormont Township of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
The Nation Municipality of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
The Nation, Municipality of - (Municipality)
Conform with
Education / Outreach
Future & Existing
Implemented
Policy Text:
In accordance with Section 22(7) of the Clean Water Act, 2006, the Ministry of Transportation, in collaboration with the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change as well as in consultation with Source Protection Authorities (SPAs), should design a sign to the appropriate Provincial standards, to identify the locations of Wellhead Protection Areas and Intake Protection Zones. The Ministry of Transportation should manufacture, install and maintain the signs along Provincial Highways within the Wellhead Protection Areas with a vulnerability score of 10, and/or within an Intake Protection Zone or Wellhead Protection Area E with a vulnerability score of 8 or higher.
Municipalities will be responsible for the purchase, installation and maintenance of appropriate signs designed by the Province in collaboration with the SPAs. These signs should be placed, at a minimum, where municipal arterial roads are located within Wellhead Protection Areas with a vulnerability score of 10, and/or an Intake Protection Zone or Wellhead Protection Area E with a vulnerability score of 8 or higher.
The above policies will be implemented as part of an overall education and outreach plan within each Source Protection Area.
This policy should be implemented within two years after the effective date of the Plan.
Monitoring Text:
N/A.
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