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SPR/SPA:
Risk:
A-2
Crowe Valley, Ganaraska Region, Kawartha-Haliburton, Lower Trent, Otonabee-Peterborough
Significant
Implementing Body
Legal Effect
Policy Tool
Threat Type
Status
Comment
MECP – NMA - ASM and NASM Inspections
Strategic
Specify Actions to be taken to implement plan or achieve its objectives
Existing
Implemented
MECP does not issue instruments under the Nutrient Management Act framework. The Ministry undertakes an annual planned inspection program that addresses risk to human and environmental health at Agricultural sites. Inspections target Agricultural Source Material (ASM) and Non-Agricultural Source Material (NASM) as regulated under the Nutrient Management Act. An intentional, core function of the Nutrient Management Act is to keep nutrients, pathogens and contaminants away from wells and surface water which in turn support the objectives of Source Water Protection. Inspections are designed to prioritize operations which could present a higher risk to these features. Each year diagnostics are completed on the results of these various inspections. DWECD inspection programs are run on a fiscal year (April 1 to March 31) rather than a calendar year basis. The IT system used to track inspections under the general agriculture program in FY 2022-23 does not currently include Source Protection information. This issue is expected to be resolved in the future. Given this temporary limitation, we can only provide high-level inspection data. A total of 204 agricultural inspections were completed in fiscal year 2022-23. One or more legal violations were identified in 108 (53%) of the 204 inspections. At the conclusion of 2022-23 fiscal, most non-compliances were resolved with ongoing abatement in only 26 (13%) of the inspections.
OMAFRA - NMS
Conform with
Prescribed Instruments
Existing
Implemented
No existing NMS in 2023
Policy Text:
Applicable Activities: Any of the following activities is an existing significant drinking water threat (see Table 4-4) and requires a Nutrient Management Plan or Strategy under the Nutrient Management Act, 2002:
a) the application of commercial fertilizer to land;
b) the application of agricultural source material to land;
c) the storage of agricultural source material; and
d) the use of land as an outdoor confinement area or a farm animal yard.
A-2(1): Prioritize the review and inspection of properties located in the Trent source protection areas with Nutrient Management Plans or Strategies within one year.
A-2(2): The following content is recommended to be included in the report required by Policy G-2(2):
a) A summary of the prioritization exercise completed for (1).
A-2(3): Following the prioritization developed under (1), review all existing Nutrient Management Plans or Strategies related to these activities to determine if they are adequate to ensure that the associated activities are not significant drinking water threats. If they are deemed to be inadequate for this purpose, they will be amended to include additional conditions that will ensure that the activities cease to be significant drinking water threats. All amendments required by this policy must be completed within three years from the date that the Plan takes effect or such other date as the applicable Director determines based on a prioritized review of Prescribed Instruments that govern the activity.
A-2(4): Following the prioritization developed under (1), and allowing for any implementation schedules set out within the amendments completed under (3), initiate inspections of properties with Nutrient Management Plans or Strategies for compliance with these documents within three years.
Monitoring Text:
A-2(2): The following content is recommended to be included in the report required by Policy G-2(2):
a) A summary of the prioritization exercise completed for (1).
G-2(2): The ministry shall prepare, by February 1 each year, an annual summary of the actions it has
taken to achieve the outcomes of the source protection plan policies and make that report
available to the applicable Source Protection Authority.
Recommended contents of the report include, but are not limited to:
a) A summary of the reviews completed during the calendar year on the Prescribed
Instruments for existing significant drinking water threats, including a summary of
the provisions included to ensure that the activity(ies) cease to be significant
drinking water threats;
b) A summary of the reviews completed during the calendar year on the Prescribed
Instruments for future activities, including a summary of the provisions included to
ensure that the activity(ies) will not be significant drinking water threats;
c) A summary of inspections carried out and any orders issued as a result of an
inspection during the preceding calendar year; and
d) Other content as specified in clauses S-3(3), A-2(2), and OT-1(7)
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