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All123-transportcorridor-3(Specify Action)

Essex

Non-specific

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MTO - Signage

Strategic

Specify Actions to be taken to implement plan or achieve its objectives

Future & Existing

Implemented

MTO and MECP worked together on the Vulnerable Area Road Sign initiative to identify drinking water protection zones in Source Protection Areas (SPAs) across Ontario. Sign design and supporting implementation policy was led by MTO in consultation with the MECP and Source Protection chairs/project managers. In October 2015, MECP provided all SPAs with the final MTO sign design for use on Ontario’s provincial and municipal roads. This portion of the policy is deemed completed. MTO manufactured signs for all source protection regions. The ministry reviewed requests for signs located on provincial highways, submitted by source protection chairs through the MECP, and conducted a safety assessment to ensure sign locations were in accordance with provincial standards for sign placement. MTO sought input from SPAs (through MECP) and provided notice of the approximate locations where provincial highway signs were to be installed in their source protection region. Signs have been installed at 128 identified locations (includes all Source Protection Regions/Areas) on provincial highways. MTO will maintain the signs installed along provincial highways as part of provincial highway infrastructure. All 5 signs approved for this region have been installed. Sign Locations: Hwy 3 Eastbound, 25m West of Outer Drive Connector Road Hwy 3 Westbound, 250m West of Union Avenue (Olinda Side Road) Hwy 77 Westbound, 1.1km East of Rochester Townline Road Hwy 401 Westbound, 860m East of Main Street/Comber Side Road Hwy 401 Eastbound, 115m East of Tecumseh 8th Concession Road overpass

Amherstburg Town of - (Municipality)

Conform with

Specify Actions to be taken to implement plan or achieve its objectives

Future & Existing

Lakeshore Town of - (Municipality)

Conform with

Specify Actions to be taken to implement plan or achieve its objectives

Future & Existing

Windsor City of - (Municipality)

Conform with

Specify Actions to be taken to implement plan or achieve its objectives

Future & Existing

Policy Text:

The Ministry of Transportation (MTO), in collaboration with the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) as well as in consultation with Source Protection Authorities (SPAs), should design a sign to the appropriate Provincial standard, 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 Zones 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 policy will be implemented as part of an overall education and outreach plan within each Source Protection Area. This policy, in conjunction with additional education and outreach policies, should be implemented within 2 years after the effective date of the plan. The implementing bodies are MTO, MOE and the municipalities.

Monitoring Text:

All 123-transportcorridor-4(Monitoring Policy): The Ministry of Transportation Ontario will prepare and submit a report to the Source Protection Authority which summarizes the actions taken to comply with policy All3-transportcorridor-1(Specify Action).

The above applies to the existing and future significant threats of the transportation of fuels in the EBAs within IPZs and moderate and low threats of the transportation of organic solvents, dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs), pesticides/ herbicides and fertilizers, in IPZ-1s and IPZ-2s in the Essex Region Source Protection Area.

The date of compliance is by February 1 of each year.