Policy G-6: Signage for Vulnerable Areas

Applicability: This policy applies to all municipal drinking water systems in the Trent source protection areas.

G-6(1): In collaboration with the Ministry of the Environment and in consultation with source protection authorities, design a sign to the appropriate Provincial standards to identify the locations of wellhead protection areas and intake protection zones.

G-6(2): Manufacture, install, and maintain the signs required by (1) along Provincial Highways within wellhead protection areas with a vulnerability score of 10 and/or within intake protection zones or a wellhead protection area E with a vulnerability score of 8 or higher.

G-6(3): Purchase, install, and maintain the signs designed by the Province in collaboration with the applicable Source Protection Authorities. The signs should be placed, at a minimum, where municipal arterial roads are located within wellhead protection areas with a vulnerability score of 10 and/or intake protection zones or a wellhead protection area E with a vulnerability score of 8 or higher.

G-6(4): If similar signs are already in place, the sign identified in Policy G-6(3) will be used for all future replacement of the existing signs.

G-6(5): The municipality and 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 measures taken to implement (1), (2), and / or (3) for the preceding calendar year.

G-6(5): The municipality and 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 measures taken to implement (1), (2), and / or (3) for the preceding calendar year.