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SPR/SPA:

Risk:

SSM-Waste-F-2.3

Sault Ste Marie

Significant

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

MECP – WDS – Hauled Sewage, Biosolids

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Future

Implemented

Since May 2015, the ministry screens all (including new and existing) hauled sewage, processed organic waste, and biosolids disposal site Environmental Compliance Approval applications in accordance with Source Water Protection Plans. This includes consideration of whether the proposed activity would be a drinking water threat as outlined in the relevant Source Water Protection Plan under the Clean Water Act. The ministry will not issue an Environmental Compliance Approval for a site deemed as a significant drinking water threat. For sites deemed as a low or moderate drinking water threat, the ministry will consider the application, but additional site restrictions may apply. The ministry’s review and approval process is included in the Standard Operating Procedure that can be found in Environmental Registry No. 012-2968 (https://ero.ontario.ca/archive/012-2968).

MECP - WDS - Landfilling and Storage

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Future

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

As legally required, where a source protection policy that relies on a prescribed instrument (PI) to prohibit an activity that is a significant drinking water threat, the Ministry conforms to the policy by refusing to issue an instrument for the activity.

Policy Text:

Prohibit the operation or establishment of waste disposal sites as defined in Part V of the Environmental Protection Act where the threat could be significant (WHPA-A and WHPA-B).

*Within the meaning of Part V Environmental Protection Act waste disposal sites may include areas for the temporary storage, landfilling, application to land, and injection of waste into a well. The types of wastes include: domestic waste, hazardous waste, liquid industrial waste, PCBs, petroleum waste, and untreated septage. Sites may be operated by an individual, by a municipality or by a commercial entity.

Monitoring Text:

(SSM-PIgeneral-MP-1.0): The Ministry shall prepare an annual summary of the actions it has taken to achieve the outcomes of the source protection policy and make that report available to the SPC.