In accordance with Section 22(7) of the Clean Water Act, the Ministry of Transportation, in collaboration with the Ministry of the Environment as well as in consultation with source protection authorities (SPAs), should design a sign to the appropriate provincial standards, to identify the locations of wellhead protection areas and intake protection zones. The Ministry of Transportation should manufacture, install and maintain the signs along provincial highways within the wellhead protection areas with a vulnerability score of 10, and/or within an intake protection zone or wellhead protection area E with a vulnerability score of 8 or higher.

Municipalities will be responsible for the purchase, installation and maintenance of appropriate signs designed by the province in collaboration with the SPAs. These signs should be placed, at a minimum, where municipal arterial roads are located within a wellhead protection areas with a vulnerability score of 10, and/or an intake protection zone or wellhead protection area E with a vulnerability score of 8 or higher.

The above policies will be implemented as part of an overall education and outreach plan within each Source Protection Area.

MON-1: By February 1 of each year, municipalities shall report to the local source protection authorities on the steps taken in the previous calendar year to implement these significant threat policies and recommendations, where appropriate.