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Policy Id:
SPR/SPA:
Risk:
CG-NB-16.1
Grand River
Significant
Implementing Body
Legal Effect
Policy Tool
Threat Type
Status
Comment
MECP – NMA - ASM and NASM Inspections
Strategic
Specify Actions to be taken to implement plan or achieve its objectives
Future & Existing
Implemented
The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) does not issue instruments under the Nutrient Management Act framework. All instruments are issues by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness (OMAFA). The MECP undertakes an annual planned inspection program that addresses risk to human and environmental health at Agricultural sites. Inspections target Agricultural Source Material (ASM) and Non-Agricultural Source Material (NASM) as regulated under the Nutrient Management Act. An intentional, core function of the Nutrient Management Act is to keep nutrients, pathogens and contaminants away from wells and surface water which in turn support the objectives of Source Water Protection. Inspections are designed to prioritize operations which could present a higher risk to these features. Each year diagnostics are completed on the results of these various inspections. A total of 235 agricultural inspections were completed across Ontario in 2024. With 12 inspections completed within the Grand River Source Protection Area. Of those 12 inspections, 5 inspections had compliance issues, all of which have been resolved.
Policy Text:
To ensure existing and future application or storage of agricultural source material ceases to be and/or never becomes a significant drinking water threat, for operations which are managed by Nutrient Management Plans and Strategies under the Nutrient Management Act and located within a vulnerable area where the application or storage is or would be a significant drinking water threat The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks shall consider prioritizing and conducting regular compliance inspections of agricultural operations, as appropriate, where significant drinking water threat activities exist, and shall consider guiding farmers to improve compliance performance, when needed.
Monitoring Text:
N/A
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