Sampling private well water is an important part of ensuring your family, friends and neighbours are safe.
The Dublin Lions are hosting a water sampling event at their Pavilion at the Dublin Community Centre on Tuesday, October 17, 2023 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. At the event you can pick up a sample bottle. You can then go home, take a sample of your well water, and then return it back to the pavilion.
Event organizers will deliver your sample bottle to Huron Perth Public Health, the next morning, for testing. This is a free service.
The Dublin Lions encourage everyone to take advantage of this convenient way to check on the safety of your well water. At the event you can also find out about protecting and maintaining your well and septic systems. Information is available on Facebook on the Dublin Lions Club page.
When water sampling of private wells is made easier, more people will do it. That’s the idea behind the ‘Water Wise’ events happening in some villages, hamlets and shoreline communities in the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection Region. Residents and service clubs are distributing water sample bottles directly to residents’ doors, giving bottles to neighbours, providing local pickup locations or having the sampling bottles available at their meetings.
When residents drop off their water samples at the ‘Water Wise’ events, their water samples are kept chilled overnight and delivered to Huron Perth Public Health the next morning for delivery to the lab in London. It’s very convenient, according to event organizers. People attending the events also learn how to protect their private wells and maintain their septic systems.
Other community groups who might be interested in partnering or hosting a ‘Water Wise’ water sampling event can contact Mary Lynn MacDonald, Source Water Protection Program Co-Supervisor, by email or by phone (519-235-2610, or toll-free 1-888-286-2610, extension 247).
To learn more, visit the local drinking water source protection best practices web page.
The region is sharing about the events on social media with #BestPractices and #WellWise and #WaterWise and #TestProtectMaintain hashtags.
A poster for October 17, 2023 well event by Dublin Lions.
