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Ontario
Drinking
Water Stewardship Program
Early
Response (Available starting April 1, 2011)
If you own property in a vulnerable area near a municipal drinking water source, conditions and activities on your property can potentially impact that water supply. You may be eligible for an Ontario Drinking Water Stewardship Program -
Early Response funding grant to implement projects that will help protect sources of municipal water.
Early Response funding is aimed at projects that reduce significant threats to municipal drinking water sources.
To find out more information about project eligibility and how to
apply, read the Early
Response Program Information sheet or contact:
Michelle Hudolin, Wetlands & Habitat Biologist
mhudolin@midland.ca
705-527-5166 ext. 202
The following Conservation Ontario fact sheets are available:
Fact
Sheet – Well Head Protection Areas
(1.2mbs)
Fact Sheet – Intake Protection Zones
(1.3mbs)
Fact
Sheet - Private Wells
(1.5mbs)
Fact
Sheet - Septic Systems
(1.9mbs)
Fact
Sheet – Runoff and Erosion Protection & Additional BMPs
(1.3mbs)
Early Actions (ended September 30, 2010)
The Ontario Drinking Water Stewardship Program (ODWSP) Early Actions Program funding ended on September 30, 2010. Through the program, funding assistance was provided to 104 projects that were located within vulnerable zones next to municipal sources of drinking water in the Severn Sound Source Protection Area.
Over $305,000 in grant money was spent on projects such as private well upgrades & repairs, decommissioning unused wells, septic system upgrades & repairs, erosion & run-off control measures, and pollution prevention reviews for small & medium sized businesses.
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