Download your source protection plan
For copies of the plans, use the links below or visit the Maitland Valley or Ausable Bayfield source protection authority offices during business hours.
These links are to large PDF downloads (approx. 10 MB in size):
Maitland Valley Source Protection Area
- Maitland Valley Source Protection Plan – Amended – Effective February 5, 2019
- Maitland Valley Assessment Report – Amended January 31, 2019 – Effective February 5, 2019
Ausable Bayfield Source Protection Area
- Source Protection Plan – Ausable Bayfield Source Protection Area – Updated October 2023 – Section 51 Amendment – Very large (6 MB) PDF file
- Ausable Bayfield Assessment Report – Updated October 2023 (Section 51 Amendment) – Very large (4 MB) PDF file
Explanatory Document
For Notices of Amendments, please visit our Notices web page.
Request for AODA (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act) Documentation in Alternative Format
c/o Ausable Bayfield Conservation
71108 Morrison Line,
RR 3 Exeter,
Ontario
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What is a dinking water source protection plan?
Policies in your locally developed, provincially approved source protection plans reduce risk to local municipal drinking water sources in the Maitland Valley and Ausable Bayfield source protection areas.
The locally developed and provincially approved plans reduce this risk through a practical and local approach to manage threats in the most vulnerable areas of the source protection region.
The plan policies with must-conform-to legal effect apply, in this region, only in three zones around municipal wells:
1. 100-metre wellhead protection area (WHPA A)
2. Parts of two-year time-of-travel area (WHPA B)
3. In the case of dense non-aqueous phase liquids, within the five-year time-of-travel area.
Direct education to persons engaged in an activity (for example, someone with a septic system or home heating oil near a municipal well) is part of the local threats management approach.
Policies such as prohibition, or risk management plans, would only apply to significant threat activities. Those threats can only be found in the three most vulnerable wellhead protection areas of the region (WHPA zones A, B, and C).
For more information on drinking water source protection in the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection Region contact Tim Cumming, Communications Specialist, at info@sourcewaterinfo.on.ca or phone 519-235-2610, ext. 248 or toll-free at 1-888-286-2610, ext. 248.
Recent Amendments
Notice of Section 51 Amendment
Minor amendments to source protection plans, made under Ontario Regulation 287/07, Section 51 (s. 51), following approval on January 19, 2015, are summarized below:
October 2023: Removal of the Zurich municipal water supply system from the source protection plans and maps:
- Download Notice of Amendment – Section 51 Amendment – October 27, 2023 – small (100 KB) PDF file