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SPR/SPA:

Risk:

BE-MC-3.3

Kettle Creek

Significant

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

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:

To ensure these activities never become significant drinking water threats, where these activities would be significant drinking water threats in the Belmont Wellhead Protection Area (WHPA) ‘A’, the Ministry of the Environment shall manage these activities within the Environmental Compliance Approvals process by ensuring terms and conditions are imposed that, when implemented, these activities never become significant drinking water threats:

i. Onsite Sewage Works;

ii. Storm Water Management Facilities and Drainage Systems: Outfall from a Storm Water Management Facility or Storm Water Drainage System;

iii. Storm Water Management Facilities and Drainage Systems: Storm Water Infiltration Facility;

iv. Wastewater Collection Facilities and Associated Parts: Sanitary Sewers; and

v. Wastewater Collection Facilities and Associated Parts: Sewage Pumping Station or Lift Station Wet Well, a Holding Tank or a Tunnel.

Monitoring Text:

KCSPA-CW-1.10: Where the Source Protection Plan policies require a provincial ministry to amend a Prescribed Instrument and/or create a new Prescribed Instrument, the applicable Ministry shall provide a summary of the actions taken including documenting the number and locations where such instruments were reviewed and/or amended. The applicable ministry shall provide a written report summarizing this information to the Source Protection Authority by February 1st of each year, in accordance with the Clean Water Act, 2006.