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Policy Id:

SPR/SPA:

Risk:

R.5.3, A.5.3, C.5.3

Ausable Bayfield, Maitland Valley

Significant

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

MECP - WDS - Landfilling and Storage

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Future

Implemented

At the secondary screening stage, ministry staff use the ECA application, other project-specific documents, the Source Protection Information Atlas online mapping tool, and the 2021 Technical Rules to determine if the proposed activity poses a significant drinking water threat (SDWT) activity. Where the proposed activity is assessed as posing a SDWT activity, the MECP’s Standard Operating Policy (SOP) related to the design and/or operational requirements and the applicable source protection plan (SPP) are referenced to inform the decision to be taken to ensure the new or amended ECA conforms with the applicable prescribed instrument (PI) policy to either manage or prohibit the activity.

Policy Text:

For those lands within a wellhead protection area where the vulnerability score is 8, future waste disposal sites within the meaning of Part V of the Environmental Protection Act, which would be a significant drinking water threat, will not be permitted. This includes, for example, but is not limited to the following (for full circumstance details refer to the MOE Tables of Circumstances):

a) landfilling of municipal waste or solid non-hazardous industrial/commercial waste where the fill area is greater than 10 hectares and results in the release of vinyl chloride or a DNAPL that could degrade to a vinyl chloride, or
b) liquid industrial waste injection into a well where the combined rate of discharge from all wells located at the site is greater than 38,000,000 cubic metres per year and results in the release of vinyl chloride or a DNAPL that could degrade to a vinyl chloride.

Monitoring Text:

Policy P.12.8 – Monitoring Policy for Prescribed Instrument Policies
Where a policy of this Plan prescribes the use of a prescribed instrument under the purview of the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, by February 1 of each year, the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change shall prepare and submit to the Source Protection Authority an annual summary of the action it has taken to implement policies.