Source water is untreated water from streams, lakes, or underground aquifers that people use to supply private wells and public drinking water systems. Source water protection is about protecting both the quality and the quantity of these water sources, now and into the future.

Source water protection is the first of five barriers to protect drinking water and human health. This multi-barrier approach to prevent contamination of sources of our water also includes using adequate water treatment and distribution systems, water testing and the training of water managers and staff. While it is important to ensure we have safe water treatment and distributions systems, it is more effective and cost efficient if we take the first steps to care for our lakes, rivers, and streams and preventing their initial contamination.

CTC Proposed Source Protection Plan
Under the Clean Water Act, 2006, a Source Protection Plan must be developed to address significant drinking water threats located in each Source Protection Area (SPA) located in Ontario. The SPA must consult with implementing bodies and the public on the CTC Proposed Source Protection Plan in a two tiered approach.

This second period of public consultation for the CTC Proposed Source Protection Plan extends from September 7th through October 8th, 2012. The CTC Proposed Source Protection Plan along with high resolution versions of the maps where policies may apply and the Explanatory Document can be located at www.ctcswp.ca. The Explanatory Document provides the rationale behind the policy development and a summary of how the comments received during the first public consultation, held from March 19 to May 1, 2012, were considered.  If you have any questions, please contact CTC staff noted below.

Comments on the CTC Proposed Source Protection Plan can be submitted in writing by October 8, 2012 5:00 pm.

All comments should be addressed to,
SPA Chair
70 Canuck Avenue,
Downsview, ON M3K 2C5
Email sourcewater@trca.on.ca
Fax 416-667-6278

Should you require further information, please contact staff at 416-661-6600 extension 5752 or email sourcewater@trca.on.ca and they will be please to provide you with the necessary information.

The CTC Proposed Source Protection Plan will be submitted to the Minister of Environment on October 22, 2012, along with any comments received in the second public consultation for his approval decision.

The best way to protect sources of water is on a watershed basis because water flows across traditional boundaries such as towns and cities. Conservation Authorities are the only watershed management agencies in Ontario that are organized on a watershed basis.

The CTC is a source protection region as described in O. Reg. 284/07 under the Clean Water Act. The region is made up of three source protection areas: Credit Valley, Toronto and Region, and Central Lake Ontario.

Credit Valley Conservation, Toronto and Region Conservation, and Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority have been working together on drinking water source protection (DWSP) activities under memoranda of agreement since 2004 when draft legislation for source protection planning first appeared. Under the regulations of the Clean Water Act the three

conservation authorities now become source protection authorities and will continue to work collaboratively on Drinking Water Source Protection.

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