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Risk:

TP-08

Grey Sauble, Northern Bruce Peninsula, Saugeen Valley

Non-specific

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

MECP - Wells

Strategic

Specify Actions to be taken to implement plan or achieve its objectives

Future & Existing

Implemented: Policy outcome(s) evaluated - No further action(s) required

The ministry has reviewed and considered the policy. Ontario has a strong and robust legislative and regulatory framework for licensing well contractors and well technicians, as well as for the construction, maintenance and abandonment of wells. Recent amendments made to the Wells Regulation (Reg. 903) took effect January 1, 2020. The ministry will continue to report on any actions resulting from the review of the policy.

Policy Text:

To ensure that any drinking water threat in the vicinity of a transport pathway ceases to be or will not become a significant drinking water threat; or that a transport pathway ceases to endanger the raw water supply of a drinking water system, the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change shall give due consideration to making changes to O. Reg. 903 under the Ontario Water Resources Act (future activity).

The legislative changes would include provisions that would:

prohibit the drilling of wells within WHPA-A unless:

the well to be drilled would be a production well associated with a large residential municipal drinking water system; or
the well to be drilled would be a monitoring well.

Monitoring policy MP-04 applies.

Monitoring Text:

MP-04: The Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change should advise the Source Protection Authority and Source Protection Committee at such time as a proposal for changes to provincial legislation or regulations is brought forward.