New video shows team behind the scenes working to protect drinking water

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Municipal water operators and public works managers, such as Municipality of Huron East Utility Operator Shawn Bromley and Public Works Manager Barry Mills, shown in photo, are some of the members of the team that helps to keep our municipal drinking water supplies safe and clean. We introduce you to a number of team players in the new video, Be Part of the Water Team.

New video introduces team working behind the scenes to keep local drinking water safe, clean

A new video, called Be Part of the Water Team, introduces the viewer to the different team players who work behind the scenes to keep local municipal drinking water safe and clean.

The five-minute video is the ninth video in a local series created between 2020 and 2023. These drinking water source protection videos have received more than 20,000 views on Facebook and YouTube.

The host and narrator of the video is Paul Heffer. He is Reeve of the Township of North Huron and a municipal representative on the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley (ABMV) Source Protection Committee (SPC). He represents the region’s central municipalities (Huron East; Morris-Turnberry; and North Huron) on the committee.

The video shares ten categories of drinking water team players. They are municipal councillors; engineering and consulting firms; well drillers; construction companies; the source protection committee; municipal public works and environmental managers; water operators; provincial water compliance inspectors; septic inspectors; and risk management officials. The video also acknowledges the important role of the public and encourages local residents to “be part of the water team.”

The video features scenes in several municipalities and features their staff, local businesses, and agencies all involved in protection and delivery of municipal water.

"Each one of us has an important role in the process of keeping drinking water safe and clean. This video gives us a chance to take a look behind the scenes at the work of water operators, public works managers, and infrastructure planners and inspectors as they collaborate in maintaining a safe drinking water supply."

– Matt Pearson, Chair,
Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection Committee

Matt Pearson is Chair of the ABMV Source Protection Committee. He says everyone has an opportunity to be part of the team protecting drinking water sources and keeping municipal drinking water safe and clean.

The SPC Chair thanked the public for their positive response to the video series. “The Source Protection Committee is pleased with the public response to our video series and we look forward to developing future topics in drinking water protection,” he said.

The Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Source Protection Region created the Be Part of the Water Team video. It is available on the source protection videos web page and on YouTube, on the Ausable Bayfield channel.

To learn more, visit the local drinking water source protection website.

This new video, Be Part of the Water Team, is the ninth in a local series on drinking water source protection. The video introduces you to the team working behind the scenes to keep local drinking water safe and clean.
Visit sourcewaterinfo.on.ca to learn more.

Learn more

Learn how drinking water source protection plan policies affect you and how you can help to protect your local sources of municipal drinking water. Visit our website at sourcewaterinfo.on.ca or call our staff at toll-free 1-888-286-2610.

The source protection committee has developed and approved updates to the source protection plans to better protect sources of drinking water.

These changes were prepared per section 36 of the Ontario Clean Water Act, 2006.

Following pre-consultation and consultation opportunities to review the proposed changes and to provide comments, our source protection region approved and submitted these amendments to the Province of Ontario, in March, for Minister’s approval.

We thank all our local municipalities and the public for their input and participation in consultation opportunities.

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