Through the Planning Act, the municipality shall prohibit the operation of establishment of the following future waste disposal sites in areas where the threat could be significant (WHPA-A and WHPA-B):

Application of untreated septage to land;
Storage, treatment and discharge of tailing from mines;
Land farming of petroleum refining waste;
Land filling of hazardous waste;
Land filling of municipal waste;
Land filling of solid, non-hazardous industrial or commercial waste;
Liquid industrial waste injection in to a well
PCB (Polychlorinated biphenyl) waste storage
Storage of hazardous waste at disposal sites; and
Storage of certain hazardous wastes.

Sites that do not require an environmental compliance approval are exempt from this policy and are subject to Policy SSM-Waste-F-2.5.

Planning Approach General Monitoring Policy: SSM-Planning-MP-1.1: City of Sault Ste. Marie shall report by February 1 of each year to the Source Protection Authority on the steps it has taken in the previous calendar year to implement the policies under the planning approach. To satisfy the provisions of s. 40 and 42 of the CWA, the SSM OP and zoning shall be updated in accordance with the provisions of s. 26 of the Planning Act. Decisions under the Planning Act and Condominium Act must conform to the SDWT policies and have regard to policies that address moderate and low threats when the plan takes effect.