Timelines
May 2000 – Walkerton tragedy
Early 2002 – Walkerton Inquiry Reports released
2002 – Ontario passes two laws: The Safe Drinking Water Act and the Sustainable Water and Sewage Systems Act
November 2002 – Appointment of Advisory Committee on Watershed-Based Source Protection
November 2003 – Two Advisory Committees named: Technical Experts Committee and Implementation Committee
January 2004 – Provincial White Paper on Source Water Protection
June 2004 – Draft Drinking Water Source Protection Act released for public comment
December 2004 – Technical Experts Committee and Implementation Committee Reports submitted
December 2005 – Clean Water Act (CWA) introduced with first reading
November 2006 – CWA passed
July 2007 – First CWA regulations passed
August 2007 – Minister of Environment appoints the 19 Source Protection Committee Chairs
November 2007 – Source Protection Committees appointed across the province
December 17, 2007 – First South Georgian Bay Lake Simcoe Source Protection Committee meeting
November 2008
– Terms of Reference describing who does what completed – public consultation required
June 29, 2009 – Terms of Reference Approved (triggering deadline for the assessment report)
June 2010 – Assessment Report due (assessment of risks to drinking water, not how to address) – public consultation on report required
2010 – Fall 2012 – SWP plans due – development of risk reduction strategies (mitigate existing problems) and land use planning policies (prevent new risks) – requires public consultation
2013 ++ – SWP plans to be implemented - primarily through municipal official plans, but province and others also subject to the plans
