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MECP - Wastewater/Sewage Works

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Existing

Implemented

The ministry continues to identify and review existing Environmental Compliance Approvals as a result of source protection plan amendments on an annual basis. For those existing instruments that are screened by the Ministry and subject to existing threat prescribed instrument policies, the existing instruments will be reviewed to determine if the Standard Operating Policy can be applied or if amendments are needed to protect municipal drinking water sources.

MECP - Wastewater/Sewage Works

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Future

Implemented

Where a source protection plan policy outcome is to manage a significant threat to drinking water sources through the prescribed instrument for sewage works, the ministry is meeting the policy’s obligations by including design and operational measures in an Environmental Compliance Approval. To assist in the implementation of this approach, anyone subject to policy requiring management of a significant drinking water threat is required to include in their application a description of the measures necessary to protect drinking water and submit a ‘Source Protection Supplementary Report’ to outline how the activity for the sewage works will be managed so that the activity will not become a significant drinking water threat.

Policy Text:

Where existing and future onsite sewage systems with a design capacity greater than 10,000 litres per day that have or require a Certificate of Approval/Environmental Compliance Approval under the Ontario Water Resources Act and could be a significant threat, the Ministry of the Environment shall complete the following:
Existing Systems
If Policy 2-1-E & F cannot be met, then the Ministry shall:
1) Review and consider including adequate terms and conditions to address the drinking water threat including an emergency plan in the event of a failure of the system; and
2) Review and consider including requirements for onsite monitoring to ensure that the system is functioning as designed and require the proponent to have the system inspected regularly using a standard equal to or greater than the inspection protocols of the ‘On-Site Sewage Maintenance Inspection’, document dated March 2011 as amended from time to time, developed by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing.

Future Systems
If Policy 2-1-E & F cannot be met and where municipal studies have shown that an onsite sewage system can be supported by the area (Policy 2-3-F), then the Ministry shall:
1) Consider adequate terms and conditions, including an emergency plan in the event of a failure of the system, to ensure that the system does not become a significant drinking water threat; and
2) Consider terms and conditions to include requirements for onsite monitoring to ensure that the system is functioning as designed and require the proponent to have the system inspected regularly using a standard equal to or greater than the inspection protocols of the ‘On-Site Sewage Maintenance Inspection’, document dated March 2011 as amended from time to time, developed by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing.

Applicable Areas:
- WHPA A and B (vulnerability score of 10) - Deloro, Madoc, Peats Point, Point Anne and Tweed and
- IPZ 1 (vulnerability score of 10) - Ameliasburgh, Picton and Point Anne.
- Issues Contributing Area - Madoc and Tweed.

Effective Date: When the Plan, or any plan amendment, as applicable, takes effect for future activities and within 3 years for existing activities.

Monitoring Text:

The Ministry shall prepare an annual summary of the actions it has taken to achieve the outcomes of this Source Protection Plan policy and make that report available to the Quinte Source Protection Authority February 1st each year.