To reduce the risk to municipal drinking water sources from activities subject to an environmental assessment (EA) in areas where the activity would be a significant, moderate or low drinking water threat the Conservation Authorities (CAs) should:

review EA documentation when circulated by the proponent;
provide available Source Protection information; and
request Source Protection Planning information (including an assessment of risks for the proposed and preferred alternatives) be included in the EA.


Participation in this program by the CAs will be contingent on funding and municipal support of the CA involvement in this program.

5.07: Conservation Authorities, 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 Source
Protection Authority. The information submitted to the Source Protection
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.