[All] Fw: GRCA News: Public meetings scheduled to provide update on drinkign water soure protection

Tue May 24 10:10:27 EDT 2011

FYI

--- On Tue, 5/24/11, Dave Schultz <dschultz at grandriver.ca> wrote:

From: Dave Schultz <dschultz at grandriver.ca>
Subject: GRCA News: Public meetings scheduled to provide update on drinkign water soure protection
To: 
Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 8:54 AM

Grand River Conservation Authority

Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Release ON RECEIPT

News Release
Public meetings scheduled to provide update

on drinking water source protection
A series of public meetings will be held in May and June to give residents of the Grand River watershed an update on work being done to protect drinking water sources serving municipal and First Nations water
systems.
All meetings are from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and will be held:

Monday, May 30 - Aboyne Hall, 536 Wellington Road 18, Fergus Tuesday, May 31 - Best Western Brant Park Inn, 19 Holiday Drive, Brantford Wednesday, June 1 - GRCA Head Office, 400 Clyde Rd., Cambridge Tuesday, June 7 - Grand Valley Community Centre, 90 Main St. N., Grand Valley Thursday, June 9 - Italian Canadian Club, 135 Ferguson St., Guelph 
There are 49 municipal and First Nations water systems in the Grand River watershed providing drinking water to about 780,000 people. 
Over the next year, a Drinking Water Source Protection Plan for the Grand River watershed will be developed to provide additional protection for the wells and surface water intakes supplying water to the systems.
The plan will identify the policies and programs needed to reduce the risks to the wells and intakes posed by human activities. It is to be completed by August 2012.
The work is being led by the Lake Erie Region Source Protection Committee and is being done under the Ontario Clean Water Act 2006.
The Source Protection Committee is working with the Grand River Conservation Authority, municipalities and First Nations to develop the source protection plan.
The plan will be based on scientific and technical research done over the past three years. The results of that research are contained in the Assessment Report for the Grand River Source Protection Area which
is available at www.sourcewater.ca 
The report describes the sources of water used by the municipal systems, how vulnerable they are to contamination and the types of activities taking place in vulnerable areas that could contaminate the water
sources.

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Further information: Dave Schultz, GRCA Manager of Communications

Phone: (519) 621-2763, Ext. 2273; Cell: (519) 658-3896

E-mail: dschultz at grandriver.ca Website: www.grandriver.ca

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