Municipality
The Town of Minto provides clean, safe drinking water to more than 2,108 people in the Harriston area. Your positive actions can help to keep that water safe and clean.
Impacts of Plans
Your local source protection committee, for the Maitland Valley and Ausable Bayfield areas, has prepared drinking water source protection plans. The Province of Ontario has approved these plans which took effect in April of 2015.
These plans help to keep your drinking water safe. Plan policies may require action from you if you are located in municipal wellhead protection area (WHPA) zone A, B or C. Please click on the map link for wellhead protection areas. Please visit our Plans page for information on policies and their impacts.
Information
Current information is available by visiting the Assessment Reports section of this website. The following is for local information purposes and may be subject to change.
Your Community Well System
The following is a description of the Harriston well system:
Well Description
- There are three municipal groundwater wells in the Harriston well system.
- Harriston Well Number One was built in the early 1930s.
- Well Number Two was constructed in 1961.
- Well Number Three was built in 1998.
- Well Number One is 61 metres deep.
- Well Number Two has a depth of 59 metres.
- Well Number Three is 56.6 metres deep.
Where Does the Water Come From?
The municipal wells draw groundwater from an aquifer. Aquifers collect water underground much like a sponge collects water. The municipality draws that water from underground through the municipal wells.
How is the Water Treated and Distributed?
Operators must adhere to strict requirements for the treatment, testing and distribution of drinking water specified in the Safe Drinking Water Act. Ontario Drinking Water Quality Standards require compliance.
To find out more visit the Town of Minto website.
How is the Drinking Water Source Protected?
Ontario’s Clean Water Act, 2006 was created to protect drinking water at the source as the first of several barriers of protection. Other barriers of defence include monitoring, distribution, and the three Ts (testing; treatment; and training of water operators).
If there is a discrepancy between the information included here and the Approved Amended Assessment Reports, the information in the Assessment Reports usually prevails.
Contact us with your questions, by phone or email, or click on your community link to find maps and information on policy impacts, and how you can help to keep your community’s drinking water safe and clean. Thank you.
