The Londesboro and District Lions Club, Huron Perth Public Health, and the Ausable Bayfield Matiland Valley Drinking Water Source Protection Region would like to thank the Londesborough and area community for sampling their well water for testing and for having attended the January 25, 2024 Water Wise and Well Wise best practices water sampling event.
Local residents brought 68 well water samples to the event, at the Lions Hall, to be taken to Huron Perth Public Health for testing.
There were 46 community members who attended the event.
Volunteers from the Londesboro and District Lions Club, as well as staff from the source protection region, helped residents with the water sample forms and ensured the samples were kept cool and taken promptly to Huron Perth Public Health for testing.
Jennette Zimmer, Building Inspector with the Municipality of Central Huron, provided information on maintaining septic systems. Doug Hocking, Property Owner Representative on the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Drinking Water Source Protection Committee (SPC), provided information on protecting your well water.
The event encouraged people to “… be water wise.” The volunteers and staff also encouraged people to “test, protect and maintain.” (1. Test your well water; 2. Protect your well and source of water; and 3. Maintain your well and septic system).
The organizers would also like to thank Hullett Central Public School and the students and parents and guardians for distributing water sampling bottles.
Ausable Bayfield Conservation’s Conservation Education Coordinator, Cassie Greidanus, on January 19, 2024, provided 250 students, at Hullett Central Public School, with the Enviroscape conservation education program, focusing on water and drinking water source protection. There were 144 water sampling bottles distributed to families, of the students at the school, so they could sample their own well water (or pass along to a family member with a well) and have it tested by local public health.
If you missed the well water sampling and testing event on January 25, you can still pick up a water sample bottle and get your well water tested.
Huron Perth provides seven locations where you can pick up your water sampling bottle and return it, with 48 hours, for testing:
- Clinton (Huron Perth Public Health, Monday to Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 77722B London Road)
- Exeter (South Huron Hospital, 24 Huron Street West, Monday to Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.)
- Listowel (Huron Perth Public Health, 161 Inkerman Street West, Fridays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.)
- Milverton (50 William Street, Community Outreach entrance, Monday to Thursday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.)
- Seaforth (Seaforth Community Hospital Lab, 24 Centennial Drive, Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.)
- Stratford (Huron Perth Public Health, 653 West Gore Street, Monday to Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.)
- Wingham (Wingham and District Hospital Lab, 270 Carling Terrace, Monday to Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.)
You may also get a water sampling bottle from your municipal office.
Doug Hocking, property owner representative on the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Drinking Water Source Protection Committee, was at the Water Wise event speaking with people about how they can protect their well water.
The Water Wise event in Londesborough.
For those who missed the event, they can get tips on keeping their well water safe by watching the video ‘Your Well, Your Responsibility’ – Tips to keep your well water safe and clean, with Doug Hocking.
You can also find the video on the videos web page of the local source protection website.
If you have a private well, you must maintain it to ensure the drinking water is clean for your family, neighbours and guests (and, in the case of a shared of communal system, other well users).
In this video, Doug Hocking, property owner representative on the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Drinking Water Source Protection Committee, gives you some helpful tips on how to keep your well water clean.
PHOTO INFORMATION: WELL WATER SAMPLING AND TESTING EVENT WAS HELD AT LONDESBORO AND DISTRICT LIONS HALL ON JANUARY 25 – Shown in photo, from left to right, are Mary Lynn MacDonald, Program Co-Supervisor with Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Drinking Water Source Protection; Jennette Zimmer, Building Inspector with Municipality of Central Huron; Doug Hocking, property owner representative on the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection Committee; Bert Vandendool, member of the Londesboro and Distrct Lions Club; Kittie MacGregor, Lions member; and Don MacGregor, President of the Londesboro and District Lions. The event made it easier for local well owners to sample their water and have it tested by Huron Perth Public Health. The evening also provided information on how to maintain your septic system and protect your well water. There were 46 people from the Londesborough and area community who attended the event and they brought in 68 well water samples for testing by local public health.
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