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**Significant threat for your vulnerable area under their jurisdiction. Your SPR/SPA will have listed policies of which you will legally be required to follow based upon your vulnerability scoring which they will be able to point you to (TRCA, 2018<ref>TRCA. 2018. How Does This Affect Me? CTC Source protection Region. Accessed: 6 June 2022. https://ctcswp.ca/protecting-our-water/what-does-this-mean-for-me/</ref>; MECP, 2022<ref>Ministry of Environment Conservation and Parks (MECP). 2022. Best practices for source water protection - Drinking Water. Last Updated: 3 May, 2022. Accessed June 3 2022. https://www.ontario.ca/document/best-practices-source-water-protection#section-2</ref>
**Significant threat for your vulnerable area under their jurisdiction. Your SPR/SPA will have listed policies of which you will legally be required to follow based upon your vulnerability scoring which they will be able to point you to (TRCA, 2018<ref>TRCA. 2018. How Does This Affect Me? CTC Source protection Region. Accessed: 6 June 2022. https://ctcswp.ca/protecting-our-water/what-does-this-mean-for-me/</ref>; MECP, 2022<ref name="example6">Ministry of Environment Conservation and Parks (MECP). 2022. Best practices for source water protection - Drinking Water. Last Updated: 3 May, 2022. Accessed June 3 2022. https://www.ontario.ca/document/best-practices-source-water-protection#section-2</ref>


You can go into further details learning about the potential risks your work may pose by visiting the [https://www.ontario.ca/document/best-practices-source-water-protection#section-2 MECP's Best practices for source water protection]. This webpage set up by the province allows users to still protect freshwater sources and drinking water systems that are not included within an SPP or regulated under the Clean Water Act, 2006. It provides additional information and approaches prospective developers and users can take based upon local soil infiltration rates, groundwater sources in the area, highly vulnerably aquifers, nearby surface water sources, and other potential factors affecting vulnerability.
You can go into further details learning about the potential risks your work may pose by visiting the [https://www.ontario.ca/document/best-practices-source-water-protection#section-2 MECP's Best practices for source water protection]. This webpage set up by the province allows users to still protect freshwater sources and drinking water systems that are not included within an SPP or regulated under the Clean Water Act, 2006. It provides additional information and approaches prospective developers and users can take based upon local soil infiltration rates, groundwater sources in the area, highly vulnerably aquifers, nearby surface water sources, and other potential factors affecting vulnerability.


Below is a table "risk factors" prospective developers (commercial, residential, municipal) should employ that asks eleven (11) questions and a user can rank to determine how at risk a local drinking water source may be given the work they are considering. Anything listed as "High" warrants further information and action to protect the water source.
Below is a table "risk factors" prospective developers (commercial, residential, municipal) should employ that asks eleven (11) questions and a user can rank to determine how at risk a local drinking water source may be given the work they are considering. Anything listed as "High" warrants further information and action to protect the water source (Table adopted from [https://www.ontario.ca/document/best-practices-source-water-protection#section-2 MECP's Best practices for source water protection (MECP, 2022)]<ref name="example6" />.


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