AI-assisted research summary: The regulation generally prohibits depositing or discharging polluting material into specified waters, contaminating underground water, obstructing natural watercourses, and discharging certain sewage or waste without written ministerial permission. It also lets specified officials order cleanup, and lets authorized persons do certain oil-and-gas-related disposal or injection activities under Board terms.
Protection of Water Sources Regulation, M.R. 326/88 R The Public Health Act , C.C.S.M. c. P210 Regulation 326/88 R Registered August 29, 1988 bilingual version (HTML) Definitions 1 In this regulation, "medical officer of health" means a medical officer as defined in The Public Health Act ; (« médecin hygiéniste ») "responsible person" or "person responsible" means (a) when used in respect of land or buildings, the tenant, owner, occupier, or person in control of the land or buildings, and (b) when used in respect of other property, the owner, bailee, or person in possession of, or having control over, the property. (« personne responsable ») M.R. 115/2025 Prohibitions 2(1) No person shall deposit or discharge into, or on to the bank of, any river, stream, lake, creek, spring, coulee, reservoir, pond, or dugout, or on the ice thereof, any manure, excreta, filth, or refuse of any nature, or permit the fouling or contamination of ice or water on any such body of water by the congregating or watering of stock at any water hole or place. 2(2) No person shall commit any act that will or may contaminate any underground water supply by the discharge of any sewage, surface drainage, liquid waste, or filth into any well, abandoned well, hole, or other opening, and no person shall fill or replenish any existing well, except with water from an approved source satisfactory to the medical officer of health. 2(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), where, in the case of a particular well or group of wells, a person who has been specifically authorized by The Oil and Natural Gas Conservation Board to do so, may (a) dispose of salt water produced from oil wells in salt water disposal wells; (b) inject salt water or fresh water into water injection wells; (c) follow such other oil drilling and oil production practices as may be authorized from time to time by The Oil and Natural Gas Conservation Board; and (d) dispose of all refinery wastes in an oil well approved by The Oil and Natural Gas Conservation Board, under such terms and conditions as may be specified by that board; or do any combination of the things referred to in clauses (a) to (d). 2(4) No person shall dam or obstruct the flow of any natural water course by the deposit of manure or other unclean or offensive material. 3 No person, without the written permission of the minister, shall discharge into any water course any raw or untreated sewage, or any creamery, trade, or mine waste that is of such a nature as will, or may, create any dangerous or offensive condition or nuisance, or impair any waters used for any municipal or private domestic supply or render them dangerous or unfit for use. Order to desist and clean up 4(1) Where any accumulation of manure, filth, or refuse is found on the banks of, on the ice of, or in close proximity to, any water course, or any act is being committed that, in the opinion of the medical officer of health or inspector, causes contamination or pollution, or creates a nuisance or offence, or affects injuriously any public or private water supply, the medical officer of health, the inspector, or the minister shall forthwith order the person responsible for the accumulation of any such material or the commission of any such act to desist from any such practice and to clean up and remove all such material. 4(2) Where the person responsible under subsection (1) refuses or neglects to remove any such accumulation as ordered, the removal may be done at the expense of the person responsible.