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MECP – MRDWS – Fuel Handling & Storage

Have Regard to

Prescribed Instruments

Future & Existing

In progress/some progress made

All incoming applications to the Municipal Drinking Water Licencing Program are screened to determine if fuel storage or handling activities are being proposed or altered. Applications are reviewed to ensure conformance with significant drinking water threat policies. As part of the current round of licence renewals (with updated licences being issued between 2024-2027), licence conditions will be amended to ensure municipal drinking water system owners assess potential new and existing threats to drinking water per the most current version of the technical rules and any updated source protection plan policies, and implement mitigation measures where policies apply.

Policy Text:

Where the handling and storage of fuel (existing and future) could be a moderate or low threat, the approving director under Part V of the Safe Drinking Water Act should require the drinking water system owner to manage the fuel threat so that it does not become a significant threat. This may include, but is not limited to, the following alterations of the works and operating procedures:

Secondary containment;
Spill/leak detection and spill response procedures as per Condition 16 of the license;
Collision protection; and
Protection of oil lines from physical damage.

The director should require the owner to amend their Drinking Water Works Permit / Municipal Drinking Water License to include the required alterations/operations procedures and apply to the Ministry within 90 ninety days of receiving the Director's notification. The MOE review of the license should ensure that the spills response procedures prepared by the owner as per item b above include the required reporting to the MOE Spills Action Centre.

Monitoring policy M17 applies.

Monitoring Text:

M17: By February 1 of each year, the Ministry of the Environment should report to the Source Protection Authority on the steps it has taken in the previous calendar year to implement the policies that are set out in the Source Protection Plan.