Policy Text:
The policy applies in all vulnerable areas where the handling and storage of non-agricultural source material is or would be a significant drinking water threat (existing activity or future activity).
The policy applies to the following provincial instrument:
- non-agricultural source material plans under the Nutrient Management Act
For all parts of properties located in WHPA-A where the handling and storage of non-agricultural source material is or would be a significant drinking water threat (existing activity of future activity) and where the property is required to have a non-agricultural source material plan as per Part II of the Nutrient Management Act, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs shall:
a) review all existing non-agricultural source material plans and ensure all parts of the property within WHPA-A are excluded as an area where the handling and storage of non-agricultural source material could occur (existing activity); and
b) cause an amendment to be made to any non-agricultural source material plans that do not contain a provision as noted in clause (a) above (existing activity); and
c) ensure that any new non-agricultural source material plans specifically exclude all parts of the property within WHPA-A as an area where the handling and storage of non-agricultural source material could occur (future activity).
For all parts of properties located where the handling and storage of non-agricultural source material is or would be a significant drinking water threat (existing activity of future activity), but not WHPA-A, and where a property is required to have a non-agricultural source material plan as per Part II of the Nutrient Management Act, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs shall:
1. Review all existing non-agricultural source material plans (existing activity);
2. Determine whether the approvals as described in clause 1 contain appropriate terms and conditions and require adequate measures to be in place to ensure that the handling and storage of non-agricultural source material ceases to be a significant drinking water threat; and
3. Where the Ministry is of the opinion that the terms, conditions and measures contained in an approval as described in clause 1 are not adequate, make such amendments to the approval so as to ensure that the handling and storage of non-agricultural source material ceases to be a significant drinking water threat;
4. Ensure that any new non-agricultural source material plans contain appropriate terms and conditions and require adequate measures to be in place to ensure that the handling and storage of non-agricultural source material never becomes a significant drinking water threat.
Existing approvals shall be reviewed within three years of the effective date of the Source Protection Plan. Where amendments are deemed necessary, the existing approval shall be amended within 12 months of the review.
Monitoring policies MP-07 and MP-08 apply.