The municipality shall prohibit future waste disposal sites or the expansion of an existing waste disposal site where the following types of waste disposal sites would be significant drinking water threats. Sites that do not require an environmental compliance approval are exempt from this policy and are subject to Policy 1-7-E&F:
- Application of untreated septage to land;
- Storage, treatment, and discharge of tailings from mines;
- Land farming of petroleum refining waste;
- Land filling of hazardous waste;
- Land filling of municipal waste;
- Land filling of solid, non-hazardous industrial or commercial waste;
- Liquid industrial waste injection into a well;
- PCB (Polychlorinated biphenyl) waste storage;
- Storage of hazardous waste at disposal sites; and
- Storage of certain hazardous wastes.
Applicable Areas: - WHPA A, B and C (vulnerability score of 8 or greater) -
Deloro, Madoc, Peats Point, Point Anne and Tweed.
- IPZ 1 and 2 (vulnerability score of 9 or greater) – Ameliasburgh (IPZ 1), Belleville (IPZ 1), Deseronto (IPZ 1), Napanee (IPZ 1), Picton (IPZ 1 and 2) and Point Anne (IPZ 1).
- Issues Contributing Area - Tweed
Effective Date: The policy will be implemented when the Plan, or any plan amendment, as applicable, takes effect. Official Plans must be updated no later than the date of their next five year review required under Section 26 of the Planning Act and zoning by-laws must be updated within three years of the Official Plan amendments to bring them into conformity with the Official Plan.