Londesboro Lions Club to host second well water testing event on Thursday, November 14, 2024
Almost 50 private well owners attended a well testing event, hosted by Londesboro and District Lions Club, in January 2024. The Lions Club distributed more than 270 water sampling bottles before that event and almost 70 bottles were returned to Huron Perth Public Health for testing.
After the success of that event, the Lions Club is hosting another well testing event on Thursday, November 14, 2024. Owners of private wells can return their well water samples between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. that evening to the Lions Hall, 282 Kings Road, Londesborough.
The November 14 event encourages well owners to ‘test, protect and maintain’: Test your well water; protect your well; and maintain your well and septic system.
Lions members are distributing sample bottles to homes in Londesborough prior to the event. Water testing sample bottles are also available for pickup, in advance of the event, at Nature’s Nest and Hensall District Co-op’s Londesborough locations. Sample bottles are available at the event as well.
The November event is the tenth Water Wise well testing and public information event held in the region since 2023. More than 420 well owners have attended the events and organizers have delivered more than 440 water sample bottles to local public health. Service clubs and volunteers have helped to distribute more than 1,500 bottles as part of the initiative.
The Lions Club volunteers and drinking water source protection staff ensure samples are kept chilled and delivered to Huron Perth Public Health for testing the morning after the event. Information on well protection and septic maintenance is available at the event.
The Londesboro and District Lions Club encourages well owners to take advantage of this convenient way to check on the safety of their well water. When water sampling of private wells is made easier, more people will do it. That’s the idea behind the ‘Water Wise’ events that have been happening in some villages, hamlets and shoreline communities in the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection Region.
Well owners may know having well water tested is important to ensure their family, friends and neighbours are safe but it isn’t always as convenient as they would like. Getting a sample bottle locally, and having someone deliver it to Huron Perth Public Health for them, makes it easier.
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To learn more, contact Elizabeth Balfour, Source Protection Program Co-Supervisor, by email (ebalfour@abca.ca) or by phone (519-235-2610, or toll-free 1-888-286-2610, extension 240).
You may also visit the local drinking water source protection best practices web page.
The event is posted on social media with #TestProtectMaintain and #WaterWise and #WellWise and #BestPractices hashtags.
The November event has been made possible thanks to funding from the County of Huron’s Huron Clean Water Project.
