Q-2, r. 26 - Agricultural Operations Regulation

Section 30 Disposition versions

2022-03-01

30. The spreading of fertilizers is prohibited in the following environments:

(1)  the littoral zone of a lake or watercourse, a wetland, and a 3 m strip along or around them;

(2)  a ditch and a 1 m strip along the ditch.

Livestock waste must be spread in such manner that the waste cannot reach the environments described in the first paragraph.

Subparagraph 1 of the first paragraph does not apply to

(1)  a part of a wetland cultivated in accordance with sections 340.1 and 345.1 of the Regulation respecting the regulatory scheme applying to activities on the basis of their environmental impact (chapter Q-2, r. 17.1), a declaration of compliance referred to in section 343.1 of that Regulation and produced in accordance with that Regulation, or an authorization for cultivation issued pursuant to subparagraph 4 of the first paragraph of section 22 of the Act;

(2)  within the strip of the part of a wetland referred to in subparagraph 1.

For the purposes of the first paragraph, where a municipality adopts a by-law delimiting a strip of a lake, watercourse, wetland or ditch of a width that exceeds the widths provided for in the first paragraph, the municipality may, despite section 118.3.3 of the Act, apply that width.

O.C. 695-2002, s. 30; O.C. 1596-2021, s. 87.

2012-09-01

30. The spreading of fertilizers is prohibited in the following areas:

(1)  a watercourse or body of water as well as within its riparian strip the boundaries of which are defined by municipal by-law; and

(2)  in the absence of a riparian strip defined by municipal by-law:

(a)  in a watercourse, a lake, a swamp having a minimum area of 10,000 m2 or a pond as well as within its 3 m riparian strip; and

(b)  in an agricultural ditch and within a 1 m strip from it.

Subparagraph a of subparagraph 2 of the first paragraph applies to the sections of watercourses whose total flow area (average width multiplied by the average height) is greater than 2 m2.

Livestock waste must be spread in such manner that there is no runoff from the waste into the areas described in the first paragraph.

For the purpose of determining the riparian strip from the sites referred to in the first paragraph, the measurement shall be taken from the high-water mark. Where there is a slope, that space shall include a width of at least 1 m at the top of the slope.

O.C. 695-2002, s. 30.