Triton Water Canada Holdings, Inc. - Permit to take water

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Type d'acte: Permit to take water

Numéro du REO
019-3531
Numéro de référence du ministère
3572-A8XGCE
Type d'avis
Instrument
Loi
Ontario Water Resources Act, R.S.O. 1990
Affiché par
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Étape de l'avis
Décision Mis à jour
Décision publiée
Période de consultation
Du 23 avril 2021 au 22 juin 2021 (60 jours) Fermé
Dernière mise à jour

Update Announcement

We updated the notice on November 16, 2021 to include a copy of the permit issued.

Cette consultation a eu lieu :

du 23 avril 2021
au 22 juin 2021

Résumé de la décision

This is the renewal of Permit to Take Water No. 1381-95ATPY for Triton Water Canada Holdings, Inc. and is for water bottling purposes. The new issued permit No. is 3133-C5BUH9 and was issued on Monday November 15, 2021 with an expiry date of November 15, 2026.

Détails de l'emplacement

Adresse du site

Lot: 23, Concession: 7
Puslinch, ON
Canada

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Promoteur(s)

Triton Water Canada Holdings, Inc.
101 Brock Road South
Puslinch, ON
N0B 2J0
Canada

Détails de la décision

After a thorough scientific and technical review, the director has renewed Triton Water Canada Holdings, Inc.’s Aberfoyle (Puslinch) water taking for a period of five years with no increase in the water taking volume. Water will be taken from one drilled well located at 101 Brock Road South, in the Township of Puslinch, Ontario, County of Wellington.

The Permit to Take Water (PTTW) contains strict conditions and safeguards to protect existing water users and the natural environment, including:

  • monitoring
  • reporting
  • response to any complaints

The ministry considered the need to protect the natural functions of the ecosystem, water availability for other users and the use of water for bottling. The ministry is satisfied that the approved PTTW is protective of the environment.

Details of the water taking are as follows:

Source name: TW3-80

  • purpose of water taking: bottled water
  • maximum rate per minute: 2,500 litres
  • maximum number of hours of taking a day: 24
  • maximum volume per day: 3,600,000 litres
  • maximum number of days of taking in a year: 365
  • earliest likely calendar date of taking: 01/01
  • latest likely calendar date of taking: 12/31
  • length of taking: 5 years

The ministry is satisfied that the water taking does not interfere with private water supply wells located in the area, nor has the water taking resulted in unacceptable impacts to the environment. The PTTW has been issued with conditions requiring monitoring of local water levels to ensure the water taking remains sustainable. Records shall be reported annually to the ministry, and/or upon request for an amendment or renewal of this permit.

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Effets de la consultation

Comments relevant to the water taking proposal were considered as part of the review of the application. A summary of the comments and how they were considered follows:

  • Comments were received urging the ministry to consider a limited permit duration in consideration of future municipal demands and potential interference with other water users over time. In response, the ministry has issued this Permit to Take Water (PTTW) for a period of five years. This will allow the ministry to review and confirm that this taking remains sustainable, and to adjust the monitoring program, if required to ensure protection of the environment and the fair sharing of water. It should also be noted that the ministry utilizes an adaptive management approach as part of the PTTW program and can amend permits at any time to reflect changing conditions.
     
  • Comments were received in support of ongoing monitoring and transparency through monitoring and reporting conditions in the PTTW. The ministry has conducted a fulsome review of the monitoring program and are satisfied that the conditions included in the PTTW continue to achieve the goal to assess for potential impacts to natural heritage features and other users and overall sustainability of the taking. Annual reporting to the ministry will be required to allow for ongoing assessment for potential impacts associated with this taking, and to allow for permit amendments should any issues be identified. Conditions are also included in the PTTW that require that Triton make annual monitoring reports and application materials available to the public on a website and require Triton to host annual stakeholder meetings to receive comments and present findings of the monitoring program.

  • Comments were received expressing concern regarding water taking during drought and low water advisories. Comments expressed support for including conditions requiring the mandatory reduction of water takings during low-water advisories. The ministry’s technical review has concluded that there are no unacceptable long-term or short-term (including during drought or low-water advisories) effects from this water taking, including impacts to existing water users or the environment. To address the concern, a condition has been included in the PTTW requiring that Triton increase monitoring and the review of monitoring data during a low-water advisory, and report to the ministry if any impacts are observed and recommend mitigative measures should these impacts be identified.

  • Comments were received urging the ministry to consider the potential for impacts to natural heritage features (surface water features, wetlands, etc.). Triton has an established monitoring program designed to assess for the potential impacts to local environmental features, creeks, wetlands, etc. Based on our technical review of monitoring data collected under condition of previously issued PTTWs, no unacceptable impact to these features has been observed.
     
  • Comments were received requesting consideration of cumulative impacts of the water taking. As part of their application package, Triton considered their taking in the broader regional context by assessing the proposed water taking using the City of Guelph’s Tier 3 Model, which helps to consider potential impacts to other water users in the area. Ministry technical reviewers have reviewed the results, along with data from the ongoing monitoring program at the Site and have not identified any concerns with respect to the proposed water taking as part of the broader cumulative regional takings.
     
  • Comments were received that were supportive of the applications citing the Professional Geoscientists of Ontario report and the Blu Metric Report, commissioned by the ministry. These comments focused on the report’s stated position that evidence to this point in time showed that water bottling activities are not affecting the sustainability of groundwater resources.
     
  • Comments were received urging the ministry to consider priorities of water use and climate change. To protect the long-term sustainability of surface water and groundwater, the province brought forward changes to its water quantity management framework to establish priorities of water use in the province that came into effect on April 1, 2021. These changes guide water taking decisions, assess and manage multiple water takings together in areas of the province where water sustainability is a concern, and make water taking data available to the public to increase transparency of how Ontario manages water resources. A condition identifying priorities of use has been included in this PTTW, identifying how these may be considered by the director in the event of a local shortage of water.

  • Comments were received in support of banning water bottling as a commercial activity in Ontario, concern with the commodification of water and siting water as a human right. Over the past years, the ministry has thoroughly reviewed the province’s water taking policies, programs and science tools and held an independent third-party review of the findings on bottled water takings, which was completed by a panel of experts from Professional Geoscientists Ontario. The independent third-party review validated our findings that water takings for bottling are managed sustainably in Ontario under existing legislation, regulation and guidance and are not impacting the sustainability of groundwater resources. Ontario has strengthened groundwater protection by:
    • enhancing Ontario’s water taking program through regulatory amendments and providing new guidance to help permit holders to understand the new rules and how to operate within them
    • giving host municipalities more direct input on allowing bottled water companies to withdraw new or increased amounts of groundwater in their communities
    • charging a water bottling fee for water bottling companies that take groundwater, effective August 1, 2017
    • hiring an experienced water resources consulting firm, BluMetric Environmental Inc., to assess water resources in the province, in addition to our own ongoing review and analysis of water taking in Ontario, and
    • validating the ministry’s findings on water bottling through an independent third-party panel from the Professional Geoscientists Ontario.
       
  • Stakeholders submitted concerns with plastic waste associated with the water bottling industry. The ministry is working to address the issue of plastic waste and litter by ensuring that plastics are recovered or recycled so that this valuable resource does not get sent to landfills or released into our environment.

Notification to Indigenous Communities

The following Indigenous communities were notified and provided details of the proposed permit renewal:

  • Six Nations of the Grand River
  • Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation
  • Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council

A response indicating no concern at the time was received from the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, they also indicated that they would like to be informed of any changes to the application. No comments or concerns were received from the other two communities notified.

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How to Appeal

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Appeal process for decisions published before June 1, 2021

If you’re an Ontario resident, you can start the process to appeal this instrument decision.

First, you’ll need to seek leave (i.e. get permission) from the relevant appellate body to appeal the decision.

If the appellate body grants leave, the appeal itself will follow.

Seek leave to appeal

To seek leave to appeal, you need to do these three things:

  1. prepare your application
  2. provide notice to the minister
  3. mail your application to three parties

1. Prepare your application

You’ll need to prepare an application. You may wish to include the following things in your application:

  1. A document that includes:
    • your name, phone number, fax number (if any), and/or email address
    • the ERO number and ministry reference number (located on this page)
    • a statement about whether you are a resident in Ontario
    • your interest in the decision, and any facts you want taken into account in deciding whether you have an interest in the decision
    • the parts of the instrument that you’re challenging
    • whether the decision could result in significant harm to the environment
    • the reason(s) why you believe that no reasonable person – having regard to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind – could have made the decision
    • the grounds (facts) you’ll be using to appeal
    • the outcome you’d like to see
  2. A copy of the instrument (approval, permit, order) that you you are seeking leave to appeal. You’ll find this in the decision notice on the Environmental Registry
  3. Copies of all supporting documents, facts and evidence that you’ll be using to appeal
What is considered

The appeal body will consider the following two questions in deciding whether to grant you leave to appeal:

  1. is there is good reason to believe that no reasonable person, with respect to the relevant law and to any government policies developed to guide decisions of that kind, could have made the decision?
  2. could the decision you wish to appeal result in significant harm to the environment?

2. Provide your notice

You’ll need to provide notice to the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks that you’re seeking leave to appeal.

In your notice, please include a brief description of the:

  • decision that you wish to appeal
  • grounds for granting leave to appeal

You can provide notice by email at minister.mecp@ontario.ca or by mail at:

College Park 5th Floor, 777 Bay St.
Toronto, ON 
M7A 2J3

3. Mail your application

You’ll need to mail your application that you prepared in step #1 to each of these three parties:

  • appellate body
  • issuing authority (the ministry official who issued the instrument)
  • proponent (the company or individual to whom the instrument was issued)

Autorité compétente
Gregory Meek
Supervisor, PTTW

Permit to Take Water Unit
135 St Clair Ave W
Toronto, ON
M4V 1P5
Canada

289-830-5867

Proponent(s)

Triton Water Canada Holdings, Inc.
101 Brock Road South
Puslinch, ON
N0B 2J0
Canada


Organe d’appel

Environmental Review Tribunal
Attention: The Secretary
655 Bay Street
Floor 15
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1E5
(416) 212-6349
(866) 448-2248
OLT.Registrar@ontario.ca

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Numéro de référence du ministère
3572-A8XGCE

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Proposition initiale

Numéro du REO
019-3531
Numéro de référence du ministère
3572-A8XGCE
Type d'avis
Instrument
Loi
Ontario Water Resources Act, R.S.O. 1990
Affiché par
Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Proposition affichée

Période de consultation

23 avril 2021 - 22 juin 2021 (60 days)

Détails de la proposition

This proposal is to renew the Permit To Take Water No. 1381-95ATPY for Triton Water Canada Holdings, Inc. for bottling water purposes. Water will be taken from one (1) well located in the Township of Puslinch, Ontario. Details of the water taking are as follows:

Source of water: well

Purpose of taking: bottling water

  • maximum rate per minute (Litres): 2,500.00
  • maximum number of hours of taking per day: 24
  • maximum volume per day (Litres): 3,600,000.00
  • maximum number of days of taking per year: 365
  • Period of taking: 10 years

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