Policy Text:
The policy applies to the following activities in all vulnerable areas where the activity is or would be a significant drinking water threat (existing activity or future activity):
1. The establishment, operation or maintenance of a waste disposal site within the meaning of Part IV of the Environmental Protection Act;
2. The establishment, operation or maintenance of a system that collects, stores, transmits, treats or disposes of sewage;
3. The application to agricultural source material to land;
4. The storage of agricultural source material;
5. The application of non-agricultural source material;
6. The handling and storage of non-agricultural source material;
7. The application of commercial fertilizer to land;
8. The handling and storage of commercial fertilizer;
9. The application of pesticide to land;
10. The handling and storage of pesticide;
11. The application of road salt;
12. The handling and storage of road salt;
13. The storage of snow;
14. The handling and storage of fuel;
15. The handling and storage of a dense non-aqueous phased liquid (DNAPL);
16. The handling and storage of an organic solvent;
17. The management of runoff that contains chemicals used in the de-icing of
aircraft;
18. An activity that takes water from an aquifer or surface water body without
returning the water taken to the same aquifer or surface water body;
19. An activity that reduces the recharge of an aquifer
20. The use of land as livestock grazing or pasture land, an outdoor confinement
area or a farm-animal yard.
The Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change should consider providing
appropriate levels of financial assistance to municipalities for the costs of
implementing policies under Part IV (Prohibition, Risk Management Plan and
Restricted Land Uses) of the Clean Water Act.
The Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change should consider providing
appropriate levels of financial assistance to Conservation Authorities for the costs of
implementing the education program policies (Policy Text ID G-04 and WN-35).
The Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change should initiate discussions
concerning implementation funding within two years of the effective date of the
Source Protection Plan.
Monitoring policy MP-02 applies