The policy applies in all WHPA-A vulnerable areas where use of land as an outdoor confinement area or a farm-animal yard would be a significant drinking water threat (future activity).

The expansion of an existing outdoor confinement area or farm-animal yard beyond the number of square metres existing as of the effective date of the Source Protection Plan shall be prohibited.

The establishment of a new outdoor confinement area or a farm-animal yard shall be prohibited.

Therefore, the use of land as an outdoor confinement area or a farm-animal yard is designated for the purposes of s.57 of the Clean Water Act.

Monitoring policy MP-23 applies.

MP-23: The Risk Management Official shall, by February 1 each year, provide to the local Source Protection Authority a summary report for the preceding calendar year that gives information on the number of violations.