The MOE is requested to continue its funding to municipalities and source protection authorities under source protection programs to continue local research into issues (nitrogen, pathogen, sodium, chloride, TCE) to determine where the following activities are a contributing source of the contaminant in the Issues contributing areas:

a) Application and storage of ASM;
b) Application, handling and storage of NASM;
c) Use of land as livestock grazing or pasturing land, an outdoor confinement area or farm-animal yard. O. Reg. 385/08, s. 3;
d) Application, handling and storage of fertilizer;
e) Septic systems governed under the Building Code Act and the Ontario Water Resources Act;
f) Discharge of untreated stormwater from a stormwater retention pond;
g) Handling and storage of road salt; and
h) Handling and storage of DNAPLs.

MON-2: By February 1 of each year, the MOE shall report to the local source protection authority on the steps taken in the previous calendar year to implement these significant threat policies, and recommendations, where appropriate.