Public meeting June 15 on water systems in Drayton, Moorefield and Arthur

A public meeting will be held June 15 to bring property owners in Dray­ton, Moorefield and Arthur up to date on work being done to protect the water sources for municipal wells serving those communities.

 

The meeting will be from 7 to 9pm at the PMD arena and community centre, 68 Main Street West, Drayton. It is sponsored by the Township of Wellington North, the Town­ship of Mapleton, and the Grand River Conservation Auth­ority.

Displays and presentations will highlight the results of re­cent technical studies of the muni­cipal water systems ser­ving those communities. The studies were done under the Ontario Clean Water Act as part of the effort to develop a Source Water Protection Plan for the Grand River watershed.

The information will be used by the Lake Erie Region Source Protection Committee to develop the source protec­tion plan by 2012.

People attending the meet­ing will find out:

– where municipal drinking water comes from;

– where the water sources are vulnerable to contamina­tion;

– what land uses pose a potential risk to the water sources;

– how to learn if their property is affected;

– how policies will be developed to protect the water supply; and

– how to be involved and make comment.

People who own property near the municipal wells have been mailed invitations. Those invitations include brochures providing more information on the Clean Water Act, the technical studies and other mat­ters related to source protection planning.

Everyone is welcome

More information on source water protection planning in the Grand River watershed is available at www.source­wat­er.ca.

 

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