Policy Edit

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Policy Text:

OT-1(1): Update local emergency response plans and/or spill contingency plans to address a potential spill along highways as defined in the Highway Traffic Act, shipping lanes, and railways. Emergency response plans must include:

a) The location of all applicable wellhead protection areas and intake protection zones;
b) Specific procedures for responding to a spill;
c) A communications protocol; and
d) The location of available spill response materials.

OT-1(2): Review and update the emergency response plans annually.

OT-1(3): The municipality 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 updates that occurred as a result of (1) and (2).

OT-1(4): Update their emergency response plans and/or spill contingency plans for highways as defined in the Highway Traffic Act, shipping lanes, and railways by:

a) Revising their notification protocol to directly notify all potentially affected water treatment plant operators;
b) Using available data and models to predict the extent and duration of contamination caused by the spill, and to help determine the parties to be notified; and
c) Ensure that information about the predicted extent and duration of contamination caused by the spill is communicated to all responsible parties who are responding to the spill (e.g., the originators of the spill, emergency response/clean-up personnel, municipal health departments, and water treatment plant operators)

OT-1(5): Conduct testing of their emergency response plans and/or spill contingency plans commencing within three years, followed by regular emergency response
preparedness exercises to address a potential spill (frequency and priority to be determined in consultation).

OT-1(6): Provide mapping of all vulnerable areas to the Spills Action Centre to assist in spill response.

OT-1(7):The following content is recommended to be included in the report required by policy G-2(2):
a) A summary of updates that occurred as a result of (4)
b) The results of testing response/contingency plans per (5); and
c) Confirmation of mapping being provided per (6).

Monitoring Text:

OT-1(3): The municipality 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 updates that occurred as a result of (1) and (2).

OT-1(7):The following content is recommended to be included in the report required by policy G-2(2):
a) A summary of updates that occurred as a result of (4)
b) The results of testing response/contingency plans per (5); and
c) Confirmation of mapping being provided per (6).

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)