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Policy Text:

Within a wellhead protection area where the vulnerability score is 10, any existing or future commercial fertilizer or pesticide application where it is or would be a significant drinking water threat, is designated for the purpose of Section 58 of the Clean Water Act, and requires a Risk Management Plan. This includes, for example, but is not limited to the following:

a) the application of commercial fertilizers where either
i. the livestock density (according to livestock density mapping) is greater than 1.0 nutrient unit/acre or
ii. the percentage of managed land is greater than 80%.

b) the application of pesticides to an area of land greater than 1 hectare.

The Risk Management Official shall negotiate or establish a Risk Management Plan with the person engaged in the designated threat activity within five years of the Plan coming into effect. The RMP is to contain, at a minimum, structural or management alterations (if any) which when implemented will ensure that existing operations continue to function in a manner which minimizes the risk to sources of municipal drinking water. 

Monitoring Text:

Policy P.12.10 – Monitoring Policy for Policies where a Municipality or Principal Authority is named as an Implementing Body
By February 01, 2016, and then thereafter annually by February 01, where a policy of this plan prescribes that a municipality or a principal authority shall undertake an implementing action, the municipality and the principal authority shall complete and submit to the Source Protection Authority, the monitoring report in a form to be established (this includes reporting from Risk Management Officials).