22 Drinking Water Threats
The following activities are prescribed as drinking water threats for the purpose of the definition of “drinking water threat” in subsection 2 (1) of the “Clean Water Act, 2006”:
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- The establishment, operation or maintenance of a waste disposal site within the meaning of Part V of the Environmental Protection Act
- The establishment, operation or maintenance of a system that collects, stores, transmits, treats or disposes of sewage.
- The application of agricultural source material to land.
- The storage of agricultural source material.
- The management of agricultural source material.
- The application of non-agricultural source material to land.
- The handling and storage of non-agricultural source material.
- The application of commercial fertilizer to land.
- The handling and storage of commercial fertilizer.
- The application of pesticide to land.
- The handling and storage of pesticide.
- The application of road salt.
- The handling and storage of road salt.
- The storage of snow.
- The handling and storage of fuel.
- The handling and storage of a dense non-aqueous phase liquid.
- The handling and storage of an organic solvent.
- The management of runoff that contains chemicals used in the de-icing of aircraft.
- An activity that takes water from an aquifer or a surface water body without returning the water taken to the same aquifer or surface water body.
- An activity that reduces the recharge of an aquifer.
- The use of land as livestock grazing or pasturing land, an outdoor confinement area or a farm-animal yard.
- Establishment and operation of a liquid hydrocarbon pipeline.