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OT-5

Crowe Valley, Ganaraska Region, Kawartha-Haliburton, Lower Trent, Otonabee-Peterborough

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MECP - Great Lakes

Strategic

Specify Actions to be taken to implement plan or achieve its objectives

Future & Existing

Implemented: Policy outcome(s) evaluated - No further action(s) required

The ministry has implemented its commitment to review and consider the policy. The ministry undertakes a wide range of activities designed to raise the profile of the importance of Lake Ontario (and all Great Lakes) as a source of drinking water through the Lake Ontario Partnership Working Group under the Canada-U.S. Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement and the Canada-Ontario Agreement on Great Lakes Water Quality and Ecosystem Health. The ministry will continue to report on the actions resulting from the review of the policy.

Policy Text:

Applicable Activities: Collaboration with other jurisdictions

OT-5(1): To raise the profile of the importance of Lake Ontario as a source of drinking water for residents of Ontario and to encourage collaboration on protecting our shared drinking water sources, the Ministry of the Environment is requested to reach out to conservation authorities, Environment Canada ,United States government agencies, and others to discuss the findings and policies arising from source protection planning.

OT-5(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) Details of any collaboration opportunities related to Lake Ontario and source protection planning which impacts the Trent source protection areas for the preceding calendar year.

Monitoring Text:

OT-5(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) Details of any collaboration opportunities related to Lake Ontario and source protection planning which impacts the Trent source protection areas for the preceding calendar year.