The Province (Ministry of Environment) is encouraged to continue funding the Ontario Drinking Water Stewardship Program, as outlined in Section 97 of the Clean Water Act, 2006 and Section 69 of O. Reg. 287/07, to adequately fund risk management practices for existing significant drinking water threats with a priority on existing threats contributing to an issue.

5.04: Ministry of Environment, and all other implementers, shall establish monitoring programs as per Section 45 of the Clean Water Act. The information collected through these monitoring programs shall be included in a monitoring report that shall be submitted annually to the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority. The information submitted to the Conservation Authority shall be consistent with the guidance developed pursuant to policy 5.02 where that guidance identifies items required to
meet provincial reporting requirements of the implementer or SPA.

Aspects of the guidance which are beyond that which is necessary to satisfy provincial reporting requirements shall be considered in submitting the monitoring reports. Monitoring reports are to be submitted by February 1 of each year following the first anniversary of the effective date of the Source Protection Plan. Monitoring reports shall include information since the submission of the previous monitoring report to December 31 of the year previous to the deadline for report submission. For the first report, the
information shall include information from the effective date of the Source Protection Plan.