Your source protection plan
Policies in your locally developed, provincially approved source protection plans reduce risk to local municipal drinking water sources in the Maitland Valley and Ausable Bayfield source protection areas.
For copies of the source protection plans, use the links below or visit the Maitland Valley or Ausable Bayfield source protection authority offices during business hours.
Notice of Amendments
The Province of Ontario has approved (effective March 26, 2024) updates to the source protection plans and assessment reports for the Ausable Bayfield and Maitland Valley Source Protection Areas.
The notice announcing approval of the updates was published on the Environmental Registry of Ontario (ERO) on March 26, 2024:
- Approved updates to the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection Plans and associated Assessment Reports for the Ausable Bayfield and Maitland Valley Source Protection Areas
- Read our local announcement Notice – Ontario approves updated source protection plans, assessment reports for source protection region.
- Download the Notice of Amendments (March 26, 2024) from Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection Region – 300 KB (medium-sized) PDF file.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at 519-235-2610 or toll-free 1-888-286-2610 or contact us via our staff contact page.
Source Protection Plan and Assessment Report Files
These links are to large to very large PDF downloads:
Ausable Bayfield Source Protection Area
- Ausable Bayfield Source Protection Plan – Updated Effective March 26, 2024 – 1 MB (large) PDF file
- Ausable Bayfield Source Protection Plan Maps – Updated Effective March 26, 2024 – 4 MB (very large) PDF file
- Ausable Bayfield Assessment Report – Updated Effective March 26, 2024 – 2 MB (large) PDF file
- Map List – Ausable Bayfield Assessment Report – 600 KB (medium-sized) PDF file
- Ausable Bayfield Source Protection Area Assessment Report Maps
Maitland Valley Source Protection Area
- Maitland Valley Source Protection Plan – Updated Effective March 26, 2024 – 1 MB (large) PDF file
- Maitland Valley Source Protection Plan Maps – Updated Effective March 26, 2024 – 7 MB (very large) PDF file
- Maitland Valley Assessment Report – Updated Effective March 26, 2024 – 3 MB (very large) PDF file
- Map List – Maitland Valley Assessment Report – 500 KB (medium-sized) PDF file
- Maitland Valley Source Protection Area Assessment Report Maps
Explanatory Document
- Explanatory Document for Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection Region – Updated Effective March 26, 2024 – 1 MB (large) PDF file
Request for AODA (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act) Documentation in Alternative Format
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What is a drinking water source protection plan?
Locally developed and provincially approved plans reduce risk to your municipal drinking water sources through a practical and local approach to manage threats, to drinking water sources, in the most vulnerable areas of the source protection region.
The plan policies with must-conform-to legal effect apply, in this region, only in three zones around municipal wells:
1. 100-metre wellhead protection area (WHPA A)
2. Parts of two-year time-of-travel area (WHPA B)
3. In the case of dense non-aqueous phase liquids, within the five-year time-of-travel area.
Direct education to persons engaged in an activity (for example, someone with a septic system or home heating oil near a municipal well) is part of the local threats management approach.
Policies such as prohibition, or risk management plans, apply only to significant threat activities. Those threats can only be found in the three most vulnerable wellhead protection areas of the region (WHPA zones A, B, and C).
For more information on drinking water source protection in the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection Region contact Tim Cumming, Communications Specialist, at info@sourcewaterinfo.on.ca or phone 519-235-2610, ext. 248 or toll-free at 1-888-286-2610, ext. 248.
Recent Amendments
Notice of Section 36 Amendments
The Province of Ontario has approved (effective March 26, 2024) updates to the source protection plans and assessment reports for the Ausable Bayfield and Maitland Valley Source Protection Areas.
The notice announcing approval of the updates was published on the Environmental Registry of Ontario (ERO) on March 26, 2024:
Download the Notice of Amendments (March 26, 2024) from Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection Region – 300 KB (medium-sized) PDF file.
Read our local announcement Notice – Ontario approves updated source protection plans, assessment reports for source protection region.
Notice of Section 51 Amendment
Minor amendments to source protection plans, made under Ontario Regulation 287/07, Section 51 (s. 51), following approval on January 19, 2015, are summarized below:
October 2023: Removal of the Zurich municipal water supply system from the source protection plans and maps:
- Download Notice of Amendment – Section 51 Amendment – October 27, 2023 – small (100 KB) PDF file
For Notices, please visit our Notices web page.