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, in conjunction with municipalities and Conservation Authorities, shall give due consideration to creating a pilot project to determine the location of unused and abandoned wells within vulnerable areas. An additional goal of the project would be to decommission the wells once they are located (existing activity).

The project could include:

airborne geophysics;
magnetic surveys;
interviews;
air photo interpretation and comparison over time;
historical land use search.

Monitoring policy MP-05 applies.

MP-05: The Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change should, by February 15 each year, provide to the local Source Protection Authority a brief summary report for the preceding calendar year that gives information on the activities taken toward implementing the pilot project. A final report should be provided to the Source Protection Authority at the conclusion of the pilot project.