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SPR/SPA:

Risk:

2.42

Lower Thames Valley, St. Clair Region, Upper Thames River

Significant

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

MECP – MRDWS – Fuel Handling & Storage

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Existing

Implemented

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.

MECP – MRDWS – Fuel Handling & Storage

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Future

Implemented

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:

To reduce the risk to municipal drinking water sources from the handling and storage of fuel for use in back-up generators for Water Works, this activity shall be managed where it is or would be a significant threat.

The Province (Ministry of Environment) shall create, review and, where necessary, amend any required approvals, licenses or permits to adequately manage the activity such that it ceases to be a significant drinking water threat. These approvals, licenses or permits shall incorporate terms and conditions. These terms and conditions, when implemented, shall manage the activity such that it ceases to be or never becomes a significant drinking water threat.

The terms and conditions may include, but not necessarily be limited to:

require the use of double-walled tanks;
secondary containment;
regular inspection of fuel tanks and fuel handling equipment.

Monitoring Text:

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.