Drinking Source Water Protection

Programs & Services

Drinking Water Source Protection - Stewardship

GRANTS NOW AVAILABLE

If you are owner of a home, farm or business property near a municipal well, you may now be eligible for financial assistance for your projects to protect drinking water.

Visit http://www.sourceprotectionstewardship.on.ca/ for more information.

Landowners who live within 100 metres of a municipal wellhead (and the two-year tme-of-travel area) or within one kilometre of a surface water intake, can help protect drinking water sources through voluntary beneficial management practices such as well or septic upgrades, runoff and erosion control projects, fuel and chemical storage and containment, or other eligible best management practices, through the Drinking Water Stewardship Program. For information visit www.sourceprotectionstewardship.on.ca The Ontario Drinking Water Stewardship Program, under the Clean Water Act, 2006 is a provincial companion program to source protection planning.

Drinking Water Source Protection Planning

The Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection Region (ABMV SPR) includes the Source Protection Committee (SPC), a local committee made up of a broad representation of the community, and the Ausable Bayfield and Maitland Valley source protection authorities (SPAs).

Source Protection Committee

For information on the committee click on 'Committee' tab.

Source Protection Authorities

For information on the partnering Ausable Bayfield and Maitland Valley Conservation Authorities visit www.abca.on.ca or www.mvca.on.ca (The Conservation Authorities have special legislated duties as source protection authorities under the Ontario Clean Water Act, 2006).

Source protection planning in the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection Region (SPR) is building upon existing programs of the Province of Ontario as well as a network of local programs delivered by conservation authorities and other partner agencies, governments and individuals.

Various water, soil and forest conservation programs and services are delivered by conservation authorities and municipal, county and provincial governments and organizations.

For more information on watershed-based programs and services visit www.mvca.on.ca or www.abca.on.ca

Working Groups

The source protection committee benefits from input by municipal planning working groups. The region has also benefitted from six local, multi-stakeholder community working groups and a municipal subcommittee made up of political representatives.

For information on the SPC or working groups click on the Committees/Working Groups tab.

Contact:

Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection Region c/o

Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority/Source Protection Authority

71108 Morrison Line,

RR 3 Exeter ON N0M 1S5

Tel: 1-888-286-2610 or 519-235-2610

Fax: 519-235-1963

Maitland Valley Conservation Authority/Source Protection Authority

P.O. Box 127,

Wroxeter, ON N0G 2XO

Tel: (519) 335-3557

Fax: (519) 335-3516

My Land, Our Water

My Land, Our Water is an online mapping application that enables you to view information on properties within the Maitland and Saugeen watersheds. You can use My Land, Our Water:

• To find out about your property's soil, slope, wells and geology
• To determine your property's vulnerability to surface and groundwater contamination based on its physical attributes (rather than the land use occurring on site)
• To measure for setbacks or minimum distance separation
• To determine the size of an area or workable acres of a field
• To find out about groundwater well protection and the importance of healthy water

All you need to know is the lot and concession number of the property you would like to view. Visit My Land, Our Water.

You may also want to view the new online mapping portal www.camaps.ca which has maps of the Ausable Bayfield watersheds.

For mapping related directly to drinking water source protection please click at top of page on the 'Assessment Reports' tab.