Approved amendment to the Nottawasaga Valley Assessment Report and associated South Georgian Bay Lake Simcoe Source Protection Plan for the Nottawasaga Valley Source Protection Area

The CWA ensures communities protect their drinking water supplies through prevention – by developing collaborative, watershed-based source protection plans that are locally driven and based on science.

An increase of water taking from Palgrave Well #4 will provide additional supply capacity to the existing Palgrave-Caledon East Drinking Water System to meet the long-term water needs of the serviced area. This well is located in the Toronto and Region Source Protection Area, although portions of their WHPA-C and D cross into the Nottawasaga Valley Source Protection Area. The original wellhead protection areas for all three Palgrave-Caledon East wells needed to be revised due to the proposed increase in water taking capacity, which affected the wellhead protection areas within the Nottawasaga Valley Source Protection Area.

Public consultation was held from June 5, 2023 to July 12, 2023. Pursuant to the Clean Water Act, 2006, they invited comments from:

• implementing bodies (including provincial government ministries and local municipalities)
• the public and affected landowners
• bands with reserves in the affected area

No comments were submitted for the South Georgian Bay Lake Simcoe portion of the amendment.

These amendments take effect upon this posting of the Minister’s approval on the Environmental Registry. The approved amendments to the Nottawasaga Valley Assessment Report and South Georgian Bay Lake Simcoe Source Protection Plan are available on the South Georgian Bay Lake Simcoe Source Protection Region’s website.