What activities are regulated?
The 22 activities that are regulated under the Clean Water Act are:
- The establishment, operation or maintenance of a waste disposal site within the meaning of Part V of the Environmental Protection Act.
- The establishment, operation or maintenance of a system that collects, stores, transmits, treats or disposes of sewage.
- The application of agricultural source material to land.
- The storage of agricultural source material.
- The management of agricultural source material.
- The application of non-agricultural source material to land.
- The handling and storage of non-agricultural source material.
- The application of commercial fertilizer to land.
- The handling and storage of commercial fertilizer.
- The application of pesticide to land.
- The handling and storage of pesticide.
- The application of road salt.
- The handling and storage of road salt.
- The storage of snow.
- The handling and storage of fuel.
- The handling and storage of a dense non-aqueous phase liquid.
- The handling and storage of an organic solvent.
- The management of runoff that contains chemicals used in the de-icing of aircraft.
- An activity that takes water from an aquifer or a surface water body without returning the water taken to the same aquifer or surface water body.
- An activity that reduces the recharge of an aquifer.
- The use of land as livestock grazing or pasturing land, an outdoor confinement area or a farm-animal yard.
- The establishment and operation of a liquid hydrocarbon pipeline.
How can I help protect our drinking water?
Everyone can help protect our drinking water sources. Things that we do on our properties can impact our own water, our neighbour's water, or even our community's water. There are lots of resources on the Region's website, the Province's website, or Conservation Ontario's website on how to protect our drinking water.
The Kawartha-Haliburton Source Protection Authority
The five conservation authorities in the region represent five Source Protection Authorities. We are in the Kawartha-Haliburton Source Protection Authority. This area covers Kawartha Conservation and extends into Haliburton County. The Source Protection Authority has a Board of Directors who support the Source Protection Committee. The Board is comprised of the Kawartha Conservation Board of Directors, as well as four additional representatives from the lower tier municipalities of Haliburton County.
Contact us
For more information about the drinking water protection program, contact the Source Protection Technician or visit:
This project is made possible through the support of the Government of Ontario