Policy Edit

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Policy Text:

To ensure that the following Existing or Future activities:

   i.       application of agricultural source material

  ii.       storage of agricultural source material

  iii.       application of non-agricultural source material

  iv.       handling and storage of non-agricultural source material

  v.       application of commercial fertilizer

    vi.       handling and storage of commercial fertilizer

   vii.       application of pesticide

  viii.       storage of pesticide

  ix.       the use of land as livestock grazing or pasturing land, an outdoor confinement area or a farm animal yard


in a Nitrate WHPA-ICA with a vulnerability score of less than ten (10), or IPZ with a vulnerability score equal to or greater than eight (8) cease to be, or never become, significant drinking water threats, where these activities are, or would be, significant drinking water threats, the County shall develop and implement an education and outreach program targeted to individuals within these vulnerable areas to ensure that the risk to municipal drinking water sources from these activities is reduced.


Monitoring Text:

BC-CW-1.9: The County shall provide a report to the Source Protection Authority, by February 1st of
each year, summarizing the actions taken to implement the Source Protection Plan Policies.

Where the County is required to implement education and outreach programs as the
primary means of managing the risk associated with significant drinking water threats,
the report must indicate, at minimum, the properties where these programs were
implemented and additional details on how the significant drinking water threat was
managed and/or ceased to be significant.