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Policy Id:
SPR/SPA:
Risk:
2.54
Lower Thames Valley, St. Clair Region, Upper Thames River
Significant
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Legal Effect
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Comment
MTO - Signage
Strategic
Specify Actions to be taken to implement plan or achieve its objectives
Future & Existing
No response required/not applicable
No action taken. Further to the February 2015 letter to the source protection authority and concerns documented during consultation on the plan policies, MTO cannot make a commitment to consider source water protection information as criterion when establishing and reviewing Emergency Detour Routes (EDRs). Criteria for EDRs are developed by a committee consisting of provincial and municipal representatives, OPP, and municipal police forces.
Policy Text:
The transportation of fuel and nitrogen based fertilizer along provincial highways, county and local roads, railways, waterways and the transportation of liquid petroleum products through pipelines have been identified as local threats in some IPZ-1, 2 and 3s where event based modelling has been undertaken. Where these local threats have been identified as significant drinking water threats in the Assessment Report, the Province (Ministry of Transportation) in consultation with municipalities and relevant police services, shall consider source protection information as a criterion when establishing and reviewing Emergency Detour Routes.
Monitoring Text:
5.06: Ministry of Transportation 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. 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.
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