Dear Ms. Moult compare to…

Dear Ms. Moult compare to how pipelines were identified in approved assessment reports. Clarification is needed from the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change to confirm that the pipelines already identified in the approved assessment reports can remain as such, and that the proposed changes to the circumstances would allow for additional threat identification rather than a removal or change to pipelines already identified as threats. Further, the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change should confirm if the event based modeling approach can continue to be used to identify pipelines as threats, where local source protection committees deem this method as appropriate.

2.The inability to apply source protection plan policies to federal jurisdictions/property and activities has been one of the challenges of Ontario’s drinking water source protection program. It is recommended that the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change continue to work with the federal government and other agencies as needed to bring about enhanced awareness and buy in for Ontario’s Clean Water Act, in order to allow for a collaborative approach in managing identified pipelines threats, for successful drinking water source protection.

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