RISK MANAGEMENT IN THE
QUINTE REGION
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Issue #18 January 23, 2015 | | INTRODUCTION
Some human activities, when they occur near a municipal water source, can pose a threat to that water source.
The management of certain activities close to municipal drinking water sources is now required by the Quinte Region Source Protection Plan. Municipalities with identified significant drinking water threats within the Quinte Region have asked Quinte Conservation to provide risk management services for them.
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Amy Dickens, Keith Taylor and Mark Boone are the Risk Management Officials and Inspectors for the Quinte Region.
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Quinte Conservation has three provincially certified Risk Management Officials and Inspectors.
Together, Amy Dickens, Keith Taylor and Mark Boone have more than 30 years experience in local source water protection.
They are ready to help people, in the most vulnerable areas surrounding municipal drinking water sources, to develop plans to manage their activities so that municipal water sources in the Quinte Region are protected from contamination.
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A risk management plan regulates how an activity, identified as a significant drinking water threat, is undertaken on a specific property. The plan outlines what actions are required to control how the significant drinking water threat activity may be carried out so that risks to the municipal drinking water source may be reduced or eliminated.
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PROJECT BACKGROUND INFORMATION
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The initiative to protect sources of municipal drinking water is directed and funded by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change under the Clean Water Act, 2006. Policies in the Quinte Region Source Protection Plan were developed by a local 21 member Source Protection Committee. The Committee has representatives from municipalities, agriculture, business, the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte and the public.
Quinte Conservation provided technical, communications and administrative support during the planning process and continues to provide needed expertise as the Source Protection Plan is implemented. Similar drinking water source protection work is being undertaken in other regions across the province.
The 11 drinking water systems in the Quinte Region where the Source Protection Plan policies apply are: surface water intakes at Deseronto, Napanee (backup system), Ameliasburgh, Wellington, Picton, Belleville and Point Anne; and groundwater wells in the Villages of Deloro, Madoc and Tweed, and the Hamlet of Peats Point in Prince Edward County. Some policies also apply in the Township of Madoc where the vulnerable areas surrounding the Village of Madoc wells extend into the Township.
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