Welcome to the web site promoting drinking water source protection in the Lakehead Source Protection Area.
This site contains valuable information on source water protection and the "Clean Water Act", as well as the most reliable and up-to-date information on local source protection initiatives to protect the sources of Municipal residential drinking water.
WORLD WATER DAY EVENT
In honour of World Water Day on Tuesday March 23, 2010, the Lakehead Source Protection Authority will host a special presentation by Mr. Bruce Davidson on why it is important to protect the sources of our drinking water.
Mr. Davidson, a member of The Concerned Walkerton Citizens, will present “Walkerton – The Cost of Getting it Wrong” explaining how and why the water tragedy occurred and the importance of Source Protection Planning. The presentation will be held 7 p.m. at the Port Arthur Ukrainian Prosvita Society, 540 High Street South.
The public is invited to attend with admission being a donation to the Lakehead Region Conservation Authority’s Private Landowners Tree Seedling Program. (Read more)
Media Release - A Presentation on Walkerton, "The Cost of Getting it Wrong". (Read more)
The Lakehead Source Protection Committee, through resources provided by the Lakehead Region Conservation Authority, is overseeing work of the Lakehead Source Protection Committee to develop a Source Protection Plan to protect the sources of Municipal residential drinking water in the watershed defined as the Lakehead Source Protection Area.
The Government of Ontario, through the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Environment is funding Conservation Authorities to coordinate source water protection at the local level.
Work on the development of the local Source Protection Plan began in July 2007 with the passing of the "Clean Water Act". The Lakehead Source Protection Authority and subsequently, the Lakehead Source Protection Committee were formed under Regulation of the "ACT".
The "Clean Water Act" requires that Source Protection Authorities and Source Protection Committees formed across the province work together with their local Municipalities and stakeholders to develop watershed-based source protection plans for their defined Source Protection Areas or Regions.
These plans will focus on protecting source water that supplies Municipal residential drinking water systems. Source Protection Plans for the 19 Source Protection Area and Regions across Ontario are expected to be completed by August 2012.
Source Protection Planning Process
The Lakehead Source Protection Committee is developing a Source Protection Plan under Regulation of the "Clean Water Act" to protect the source water for the only two indentified local Municipal residential drinking water systems in the Lakehead Source Protection Area.
The Bare Point Water Treatment Plant supplies the City of Thunder Bay with its Municipal residential drinking water. Lake Superior is the source of water for the City of Thunder Bay's Municipal drinking water system with the surface water intake located 750 metres off shore at Bare Point. Bare Point is the single source of Municipal residential drinking water for the City of Thunder Bay, serving a population of over 100,000.
Rosslyn Village, located in the Municipality of Oliver Paipoonge, has the only other Municipal residential drinking system in the Lakehead Source Protection Area. The Rosslyn Village Municipal system draws its water from two groundwater wells, which are operated alternately and supplies about 30 homes in the village. |
