It was an excellent turn-out for the Drinking Water Source Protection Municipal Forum today. The event, designed to assist municipalities and other partners with the implementation process of the Trent and Ganaraska Source Protection Plans featured a number of presentations and discussions pertaining to municipal processes and supports now in place to successfully carry out mandates geared toward the preservation and conservation of drinking water in the Trent Conservation Coalition Source Protection Region.

The Trent Conservation Coalition Source Protection Committee met today. Review the meeting summary here.

The Source Protection Plans for the Trent Conservation Coalition Source Protection Region are now in effect. These plans, approved by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (October 2014) set out policies to protect water sources supplying 53 municipal drinking water systems within the 14, 500 square kilometer region. The plans are a requirement of Ontario’s Clean Water Act, which was passed in 2006, as a response to the Province’s inquiry into the Walkerton drinking water tragedy. To learn more about Source Protection Plans click here.