Policy Text:
The policy applies to the following activities in all vulnerable areas where the activity is a significant drinking water threat (existing 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 and/or the Ministry of
Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs should establish a Financial Support Fund. The
purpose of the fund would be to provide appropriate levels of monetary support for
landowners incurring identifiable financial losses and costs resulting from the
implementation of Source Protection Plan policies.
Claims for financial support should be submitted to, and reviewed by, a local review
committee to determine the acceptability of the claim and amount of support to be
paid.
Note: The financial support would not be available to cover the costs of
implementation activities or projects eligible under incentive program policies (Policy
Text ID G-05 in the Source Protection Plan).
The Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change and/or Ministry of Agriculture,
Food and Rural Affairs should establish the Financial Support Fund within two years
of the effective date of the Source Protection Plan.
Monitoring policy MP-16 applies