Policy Text:
The Essex Region Conservation Authority will initiate and lead Education and Outreach, when the Source Protection Plan takes effect, directed to
all landowners and residents with private wells in HVAs, SGRAs and other rural areas, to promote best management practices to help address
various potential threats to groundwater sources of drinking water, raise awareness of drinking water threats, and provide education on the
vulnerability of HVAs, SGRAs and abandoned or poorly maintained wells as transport pathways of contamination to sources of groundwater.
Implementation will be conditional on availability of funding. The E & O will be targeted for implementation within three to five years of the Plan
taking effect, and will continue as needed based on a review at that time.
The above applies to the existing and future, moderate and low, various threats (listed below) in all HVAs and SGRAs and rural areas with private wells in the Essex Region Source Protection Area:
The handling and storage of road salt
The storage of snow
The handling and storage of fuel
Waste disposal sites
The establishment, operation or maintenance of a system that collects,
stores, transmits, treats or disposes of sewage
The handling and storage of a dense non-aqueous phase liquid
The handling and storage of an organic solvent
The application of pesticide to land
The handling and storage of pesticide
The application of commercial fertilizer to land
The handling and storage of commercial fertilizer
The application of agricultural source material to land
The storage of agricultural source material
The management of agricultural source material
The application of non-agricultural source material to land
The handling and storage of non-agricultural source material