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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2009-10-07, Page 18• ktf e ,1i nib 7ca1rogx3 oo'VH err • Pogs•16 r•'1t iriHurarr icor . )'r'r'� *r'-��r't-i1'.- i-l•r•,- I -r'•'• s'. as •:, News Business owners invited to meeting on water. protection Susan Hundertmark • Business owners located within the two-year time -of -travel to municipal wells in Huron East have been invit- ed to participate in meetings on the Drinking Water Source Protection Act. _ The meetings, which will be held in Harriston on Oct. 15 from 5-6:30 p.m. and at the Brussels commu- nity centre on Nov 19 from 5-6:30 p.m., will ;inform businesses across the Ausable Bayfield and Maitland Valley watersheds what it means to be located in a vulnerable area and what precautions can be taken to preventcontamination of municipal water sources. "We want businesses and indus- tries to be more engaged in the issue. It's a group that needs to think about what " they're storing and whether theyneed better management prac- tices," .says Cathie Brown, project manager of the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection Region. Invited business owners include about a dozen each- from Seaforth, Bayfield, Brucefield and Brussels, 30 in Zurich and about 60 in Clinton. Letters were sent to about 500 prop- erty owners in the two watersheds. A local source protection commit- tee has been creating an assessment report identifying the areas where the ground is more vulnerable to the contamination of drinking water along with the po- tential sources of contamination in those areas. - Brown says the agricultural com- munity in the Ausable Bayfield and Maitland Valley region has been very en- gaged in the pro- cess since 2006 when the Ontario Clean Water Act legislated that a Drinking Water Source Protection Plan be devel- oped. "There was concern in the broader agricultural community that the leg- islation would be limiting to what they can do but there's likely only a handful of farms in vulnerable ar- eas," she says, adding that there are less than 13 hectares of farmland in zones that are 100 metres from mu- nicipal wells. 'But, she's now hoping to reach the business and industrial sector. "We are looking at where there are potential sources of contamination from a variety of land uses and what people ate doing that can contrib- ute," she says. The province has created a list of 21 potential threats to drink- ing water, which include patho- gens and chemi- cals such as fuel, organic solvents, fertilizers and pesticides. Along with that list are a list of circum- stances that mea- sure the risk in- volved. "There's a vast difference between a jerry can of fuel and a home oil heating tank," says Brown. Of particular concern would be businesses who use dense non-aque- • ous phase liquids (DNAPLs), which are denser than water and can sink into the ground to contaminate an aquifir. DNAPLs include chemicals used by some commercial dry cleaners 'key `We want businesses and industries to be more engaged in the issue. It's a group that needs to think about what they're storing,'-- roject, anager, and service stations including spot removers, degreasers and automo- tive coolants. Brown says businesses might be interested to know that there are a variety of grants now available through the Ontario Drinking Water Stewardship fund for properties in a two-year time -of -travel to a munici- pal well. The grants are available for decom- missioning abandoned wells, septic tank inspections, connections to ser- vice and small business inventories which would recommend improved practices. Brown says the assessment report is due at the Ministry of Environ- ment in June of 2010. 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