Municipality
The Township of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh provides clean, safe drinking water to the Century Heights areas in the community of Saltford. Your positive actions can help to keep that water safe and clean.
Impacts of Plans
Your local source protection committee, for the Maitland Valley and Ausable Bayfield areas, has prepared drinking water source protection plans. The Province of Ontario has approved these plans which took effect in April of 2015.
These plans help to keep your drinking water safe. Plan policies may require action from you if you are located in municipal wellhead protection area (WHPA) zone A, B or C. Please click on the map link for wellhead protection areas.
Information
Current information is available by visiting the Assessment Reports section of this website. The following is for local information purposes and may be subject to change.
Your Community Well System
The following is a description of the Century Heights well system:
Well Description
- There are three municipal groundwater wells in the Century Heights system.
- Wells number one and two were constructed in 1979, to a depth of 66 to 69 metres.
- Well number three was constructed in 2022, with depth of 76 metres.
- Annual water reports are found at the municipal website at acwtownship.ca
- The wells and wellhead protection areas are in Maitland Valley Source Protection Area.
Where Does the Water Come From?
The municipal wells draw groundwater from an aquifer. Aquifers collect water underground like a sponge collects water.
How is the Water Treated and Distributed?
The municipality adds chlorination to the well water to disinfect it.
Operators must adhere to strict requirements for the treatment, testing and distribution of drinking water specified in the Safe Drinking Water Act.
How is the drinking water source protected?
Ontario’s Clean Water Act, 2006 was created to protect drinking water at the source as the first of several barriers of protection. Other barriers of defence include monitoring, distribution, and the three Ts (testing; treatment; and training of water operators).
If there is a discrepancy between the information included here and the Approved Amended Assessment Reports, the information in the Assessment Reports usually prevails.
Contact us with your questions, by phone or email, or click on your community link to find maps and information on policy impacts, and how you can help to keep your community’s drinking water safe and clean. Thank you.
