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Risk:

BE-MC-3.1

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 – Hauled Sewage, Biosolids

Conform with

Prescribed Instruments

Future

Implemented

Since May 2015, the ministry screens all (including new and existing) hauled sewage, processed organic waste, and biosolids disposal site Environmental Compliance Approval applications in accordance with Source Water Protection Plans. This includes consideration of whether the proposed activity would be a drinking water threat as outlined in the relevant Source Water Protection Plan under the Clean Water Act. The ministry will not issue an Environmental Compliance Approval for a site deemed as a significant drinking water threat. For sites deemed as a low or moderate drinking water threat, the ministry will consider the application, but may apply additional site restrictions. The ministry’s review and approval process is included in the Standard Operating Procedure (see Environmental Registry No. 012-2968) and continues to be available.

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) ‘A’, the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks shall prohibit through the Environmental Compliance Approvals process the following future activities within the meaning of the Environmental Protection Act or as defined by the Ontario Water Resources Act that are subject to an Environmental Compliance Approval:

i. Industrial Effluent Discharges;

ii. Wastewater Collection Facilities and Associated Parts: Outfall of a Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO), or a Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) from a Manhole or Wet Well;

iii. Wastewater Treatment Facilities and Associated Parts;

iv. Disposal of Hauled Sewage to Land;

v. Application of Processed Organic Waste to Land.;

vi. Landfarming of Petroleum Refining Waste;

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

viii. Landfilling (Municipal Waste);

ix. Liquid Industrial Waste Injection into a Well;

x. PCB Waste Storage;

xi. Storage of Hauled Sewage;

xii. Storage of Processed Organic Waste or Biomass;

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

xiv. Transfer/Processing Site Approved to receive only Municipal Waste Under Part V of the Environmental Protection Act;

xv. Storage of Subject Waste at a Waste Generation Facility: Site Requires Generator Registration under Section 3 of O. Reg. 347;

xvi. Storage of Subject Waste at a Waste Generation Facility: Site that is Exempt or Excluded from Generator Registration Requirements; and

xvii. Storage, Treatment and Discharge of Tailings from Mines.

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.