Municipality
The Municipality of North Perth provides clean, safe drinking water to about 43 people from the Molesworth municipal well system. Your positive actions can help to protect the source of that drinking water.
The well is operated by the Municipality of North Perth and inspected annually by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks. Inspection results are posted on the municipal website.
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.
Please click on the Plans tab for plan policies that may apply to you.
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 Molesworth well system:
Well Description
- There is one municipal well in Molesworth.
- The newly-constructed Molesworth well was built in 2010. It replaced the former well at the same site.
- The Molesworth well is 47.2 metres deep.
- Annual water reports can be found at the municipal website at northperth.ca
- The Molesworth well and wellhead protection areas are in Maitland Valley Source Protection Area.
From where does the water come?
The municipal well draws groundwater from an aquifer. Aquifers collect water underground much like a sponge collects water. The municipality draws that water from underground through the municipal well.
How is the water treated and distributed?
Operators must adhere to strict requirements for the treatment, testing and distribution of drinking water specified in the Safe Drinking Water Act. Ontario Drinking Water Quality Standards require compliance.
How is the Drinking Water Source Protected?
Operators must adhere to strict requirements for the treatment, testing and distribution of drinking water specified in the Safe Drinking Water Act. Ontario Drinking Water Quality Standards require compliance.
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.
