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Bennery Lake Watershed Protected Water Area Designation

made under

Section 106 of the

Environment Act

S.N.S. 1994-95, c. 1

N.S. Reg. 210/2003 (December 4, 2003)

as amended by N.S. Reg. 25/2013 (January 24, 2013)

Canada

Province of Nova Scotia

In the Matter of: the Environment Act , S.N.S. 1994-95, c.1, s.106

In the Matter of: the designation of an area surrounding Bennery Lake, Halifax Regional

Municipality, as a Protected Water Area, to be known as the “Bennery

Lake Watershed Protected Water Area”

Designation of the Bennery Lake Watershed Protected Water Area and

the Making of Regulations with Respect Thereto

Whereas

Section 106 of

Chapter 1 of the Acts of 1994-95, the Environment Act , provides for

the designation by the Minister of Environment of a protected water area and the making of

regulations under subsection (6) to prohibit, regulate or require the doing of any act or acts in a

protected water area that may impair or prevent the impairment, as the case may be, of the

quality of the water in the Protected Water Area;

Whereas the operator of the Bennery Lake Water Treatment Plant, the Halifax Regional

Municipality, has requested that the Minister of Environment designate a portion of the Bennery

Lake Watershed as a Protected Water Area in order to protect the quality of the surface water

and groundwater resource as a water supply;

And

whereas Halifax Regional Municipality has provided opportunities for public

consultation, including public meetings and the establishment of the Bennery Lake Watershed

Management Committee, an advisory committee comprising representatives of the Province of

Nova Scotia, the Halifax Regional Municipality, the Halifax Watershed Advisory Board,

members of the general public and landowners;

Therefore pursuant to

Section 106 of

Chapter 1 of the Acts of 1994-95, the Environment Act ,

the undersigned, Kerry Morash, Minister of Environment hereby

(

a) designates an area surrounding Bennery Lake more fully described in

Schedule “A”

as a protected water area, to be known as the “Bennery Lake Watershed Protected

Water Area”; and

(

b) makes regulations respecting activity in the Bennery Lake Watershed Protected

Water Area, in the form set forth in

Schedule “B”.

Sgd: K. Morash

Honourable Kerry Morash

Minister of Environment

Halifax, Nova Scotia

December 4, 2003

Schedule “A”

Bennery Lake Watershed Protected Water Area

Boundary Description

All that certain parcel of land situated at Grand Lake, Halifax County, Nova Scotia and being

Parcel BL shown on a plan titled “Compiled Plan of BENNERY LAKE WATERSHED”

prepared by Robert Wentzell, N.S.L.S., dated January 26, 1999 and being on file at the office of

the Director of Public Works and Transportation, Design Services, Halifax Regional

Municipality as plan File No. 98031601 and being more particularly described as follows:

Commencing at Nova Scotia Co-ordinate Monument No.11751;

thence N 08° 18' 13” E, 767.038 metres to a point on the northwest boundary of Old

Guysborough Road being the point of beginning;

thence N 37° 49' 10” W, 1455.218 metres to a point;

thence N 00° 00' 00” W, 2172.155 metres to a point;

thence N 52° 15' 00” W, 200.000 metres to a point;

thence S 74° 02' 10” W, 677.310 metres to a point;

thence S 49° 30' 10” W, 1235.887 metres to a point;

thence S 23° 22' 31” W, 1535.406 metres to a point;

thence S 60° 05' 26” E , 950.148 metres to a point;

thence S 29° 37' 41” W, 118.457 metres to a point;

thence S 77° 09' 02” E , 1149.643 metres to a point;

thence S 21° 41' 45” E , 831.015 metres to a point;

thence S 37° 51' 58” E , 463.052 metres to a point;

thence N 41°18' 25” E along the northwest boundary of the Old Guysborough Road, 990.579

metres to a deflection therein:

thence N 33° 32' 30” E along the northwest boundary of the Old Guysborough Road, 216.116

metres to the point of beginning.

Parcel BL contains 659.8 hectares.

ALL bearings are based on Zone 5, Central Merdian [Meridian] 64°30' West, of the Nova

Scotia 3° Modified Transverse Mercator Projection of ATS77 Geodetic Datum.

Map Showing Approximate Boundaries of Bennery Lake Watershed Protected Water Area

map added: N.S. Reg. 25/2013.