What is a Source Protection Plan?
The Source Protection Plan is a series of policies that when implemented will protect our drinking water sources from current and future threats. These threats have been identified through the technical and scientific work in the Assessment Reports. The Source Protection Plan must have policies that address "significant drinking water threats" and may contain policies which address "low" and "moderate" drinking water threats.
The Plan lay out how the risk level of identified threats is to be reduced and how future threats will be avoided. The Source Protection Committee has a number of tools at its disposal to write these plans, including:
- prescribed instruments (other provincial approvals such as certificates of approval or nutrient management act);
- requiring risk management plans (negotiated with property owners);
- land use planning (ie restricted land use);
- prohibition of activities;
- education and outreach; or
- combination of the above tools
CTC Proposed Source Protection Plan (Low Resolution version. For high resolution maps, scroll down to download individually)
The Source Water Protection aims to protect public drinking water sources from contamination and overuse through the implementation of science-based source protection plans.
The CTC Proposed Source Protection Plan contains information on source water planning process and some background in developing the policies.
The CTC Proposed Source Protection Plan can be downloaded by Chapter:- Click here for Chapter 10 The Policies.
Appendex F: Maps of Threat Areas where Policies Apply Maps show vulnerable areas around separate municipal drinking water systems. The maps below are numbered using the following coding:
Maps labeled as 1.x are Significant Groundwater Quality Threats (excluding DNAPLS).
Maps labeled as 2.x are Significant Groundwater Quality Threats for DNAPLS.
Maps labeled as 3.1 are Significant Groundwater Quanity Threats
Maps labeled as 4.1 are significant threats in Lake Ontario
The Explanatory Document provides the rationale behind the policy development and a summary of how the comments received during municipal pre-consultation and the first public consultation (March 19 to May 1, 2012) were considered by the Source Protection Committee. It contains:
These documents may be large files to download, Contact Us if you require assistance to view the CTC Proposed Source Protection Plan.
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