Got Advice for MOE on Source Protection Plans?
GOT ADVICE FOR MOE ON SOURCE PROTECTION PLANS?
The Ministry of the Environment (MOE) wants your input on how Source Protection Plans should be developed. Currently, technical studies are showing us where drinking water needs to be protected. The next step is to develop plans outlining how to protect it.
The MOE has posted a draft regulation to stimulate discussion about source protection plans, specifically:
· their content,
· how they will be developed; and
· policy options to address drinking water threats.
The Ministry will consider your feedback and suggestions before they finalize a regulation later this summer. You can find the draft regulation (proposed amendment to Ontario Regulation 287/07) on the Environmental Registry web site www.ebr.gov.on.ca (registry # 010-8766).You can also obtain a copy from Sommer Casgrain-Robertson.
Comments are due March 26, 2010 and can be submitted:
· Online at: www.ebr.gov.on.ca
· By Fax to: 416-327-6926
· In Writing to:
Debbie Scanlon
Senior Drinking Water Program Advisor
Ministry of the Environment
Drinking Water Management Division
Source Protection Programs Branch
2 St. Clair Avenue West, Floor 8
Toronto, ON M4V 1L5
This is a great opportunity for municipalities and stakeholders to shape what source protection plans can look like before local Source Protection Committees start drafting them later this year. Committees must submit draft source protection plans to the MOE for approval by August, 2012.
More information:
Sommer Casgrain-Robertson
Co-Project Manager, Mississippi-Rideau Source Protection Region
613-692-3571 or 1-800-267-3504 ext 1147
sommer.robertson@mrsourcewater.ca