If you apply pesticides, store them properly to help protect our drinking water sources.
Check out this pesticide storage and spills response kit video, from the Ontario Pesticide Education Program, featuring Steve Twynstra, of Twilight Acre Farms Limited, an agricultural producer from the Ailsa Craig area.
Avoid contaminating any well or surface water source by properly mixing, loading or applying pesticides and know what to do if a spill does occur.
Province of Ontario Pesticide Web Pages:
- Help to prevent potential water contamination from pesticides
- Prevent spills and handle pesticides properly
- Store pesticides properly
Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association Fact Sheet:
Local Fact Sheet for Agriculture on Protecting Drinking Water Sources:
Protecting Drinking Water Sources on Agricultural Properties – Fact Sheet
Threat Activities and Source Protection Planning Policies
To learn more about the 22 activities which can pose a potential significant threat to municipal drinking water sources, visit our threat activities web page.
For source protection planning policies and what they require, to reduce risk from significant drinking water threat (SDWT) activities, in municipal wellhead protection areas, visit our source protection plans web page.
