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Risk:

BE-MC-3.2

Kettle Creek

Significant

Implementing Body

Legal Effect

Policy Tool

Threat Type

Status

Comment

MECP - Wastewater/Sewage Works

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Future

Implemented

Based on criteria, the prescribed instrument application may be flagged for a more detailed ‘secondary screening’ to determine if the activity associated with the application is a significant drinking water threat. If yes, the appropriate standard operating policy is applied. As legally required, where a source protection policy that relies on a prescribed instrument to prohibit an activity that is a significant drinking water threat, the ministry is conforming to the policy by refusing to issue an instrument for the activity.

MECP - WDS - Landfilling and Storage

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Future

Implemented

As legally required, where a source protection policy that relies on a prescribed instrument (PI) to prohibit an activity that is a significant drinking water threat, the Ministry conforms to the policy by refusing to issue an instrument for the activity.

Policy Text:

To ensure that these activities never become significant drinking water threats, where they would be significant drinking water threats in the Belmont Wellhead Protection Area (WHPA) ‘B’, the Ministry of the Environment shall prohibit the following future activities within the Environmental Compliance Approvals process:

i. Landfilling (Municipal Waste);

ii. Landfilling (Hazardous Waste or Liquid Industrial Waste);

iii. Liquid Industrial Waste Injection into a Well;

iv. Transfer/Processing Sites Approved to Receive Hazardous Waste or Liquid Industrial Waste; and

v. Transfer/Processing Site Approved to Receive only Municipal Waste under Part V of the Environmental Protection Act.

Monitoring Text:

KCSPA-CW-1.11: Where the Source Protection Plan policies require a provincial ministry to deny a Prescribed Instrument, the applicable Ministry shall document the number and locations where such instruments were denied and provide a summary of the actions taken to the Source Protection Authority by February 1st of each year, in accordance with the Clean Water Act, 2006.