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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLakeshore Advance, 2013-11-20, Page 88 Lakeshore Advance • Wednesday, November 20,. 2013 Drinking water source protection region applauds provincial announcement of $13.5 million in funding for small, rural municipalities to implement plans Municipalities, counties in Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley region to get more than $1 million of this funding to help them enact locally - developed plans to protect drinking water sources Lakeshore Advance The Province of Ontario has announced $13.5 million in funding for small, rural municipalities to help them enact plans to protect drinking water sources. More than $1 million of that money will support municipal- ities and counties in the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection Region to implement the plans. Local municipalities such as Bluewater, Ash- field-Colborne-Wawanosh, North Huron, Cen- tral Huron, Huron Bast, North Perth, Huron - Kinloss, Minto, Morris-Turnberry, and West Perth will receive a total of more than $727,000 for their work to implement local source pro- tection committees' proposed plans to protect municipal drinking water sources in their source protection regions. Counties in the Aus- able Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protec- tion Region are Perth, Bruce, Wellington, Huron, Lambton, and Middlesex. Those six counties will receive more than $305,000 for their role in drinking water source protection their source protection regions. "The community members on the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley source protection committee have worked very hard to prepare plans to protect local drinking water sources and this new funding will enable our local municipalities to put these plans into effect," said Jenna Allain, Program Supervisor with the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Drinking Water Source Protection Region. The Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection Committee has submitted proposed plans for the Maitland Valley and Ausable Bay- field source protection areas. Those plans are expected to receive provincial approval by next year. 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Eligible costs includf' risk management, expenses municipa g ities incur in order to change land-use— planning policies to prohibit or reduce activities that pose a significant drink- ing water threat, community education and outreach, and other activities that align with the collection of data under the Ontario Clean Water Act, 2006. Almost 200 municipalities in Ontario will receive support to help carry out drinking water source protection plans. These plans, which are developed locally, are an important part of Ontario's drinking water safety net and protect existing and future sources of drinking water. "Guarding against threats to our drinking water supplies is the purpose of source protection," said Jim Bradley, Ontario's Minister of the Environment. "With the help of our many partners on local source protection committees, we are completing source -to -tap drinking water protection." 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