Amendments

Trent and Ganaraska Source Protection Plans
Section 51 Amendment Notice

On July 30th, 2026, the Trent Conservation Coalition Source Protection Committee approved a Section 51 Amendment to the Trent and Ganaraska Source Protection Plans. This is a minor correction to the description of the Applicable Activities for Policy S-9 and S-10.

Background:
Policy S-9 and S-10 were originally Part IV policies for various sewage, including septic systems and storm water threats.
They were meant for anything that did not require either a Ministry approval or Building Code approval, and the Applicable Activities explained that situation. These policies were never used because everything related to these threats used to require either a Ministry approval or Building Code approval.

In 2025, when the Committee learned that certain low risk storm water activities were now exempt from any Ministry approvals including Environmental Activity and Sector Registry registration, they approved modifying the policy text for Policy S-9 and S-10, so that the policies would apply only to these exempt storm water activities. That change was approved by the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks on March 09, 2026, as part of the Section 36 Amendments .

Now that these policies only apply to the exempt storm water activities, the Building Code reference in the Applicable Activities (related to septic systems) was an error.

Original Applicable Activities Text:
The establishment, operation or maintenance of a system that collects, stores, transmits, treats or disposes of sewage including storm water that is an existing or would be a future significant drinking water threat and both of the following conditions apply:
The system does not require a Prescribed Instrument; and
The Building Code Act, 1992 does not apply to the system.

New Applicable Activities Text:
The establishment, operation or maintenance of a system that collects, stores, transmits, treats or disposes of sewage including storm water that is an existing or would be a future significant drinking water threat and is exempt from environmental permissions.

Impact:
There is no impact on the new policies as a result of this minor correction.

The corrected Trent and Ganaraska Source Protection Plans are now available online.