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Source Water Protection - City of Hamilton Source water protection is the first step in a multi-barrier approach to protecting our sources of drinking water such as lakes, rivers and groundwater before they become contaminated or depleted
Source protection - Ontario. ca Ontario has a multi-barrier approach to protect drinking water from source to tap More than 99 8% of water quality tests continue to meet Ontario’s strict health-based water quality standards
Hamilton Region Source Protection Area - Protecting Water The headwater areas of three of the large watersheds – Spencer Creek, Red Hill Creek, and Stoney-Battlefield Creeks – form the majority of the surface water divide between this and neighbouring source protection areas The city core of Hamilton makes up the Urban Hamilton Core watershed where storm sewers are the conduits of water flow
Grand River Source Protection Area: Assessment Report The system currently supplies, on average, approximately 103 m3 d of potable water to 380 residents (City of Hamilton, 2017) With the addition of FDL-03, the system will have a capacity of 518 4 m3 day (Earthfx, 2018)
Hamilton Conservation Authority We measured three indicators that reflect key issues related to surface water quality across the province: nutrients (total phosphorous), bacteria waste (E coli), and aquatic health (benthic macroinvertebrates)
Halton-Hamilton Halton-Hamilton Source Source Protection Protection . . . The City of Hamilton holds two Permits To Take Water (PTTW) that allow the taking of up to 851 cubic metres per day from wells FDC01 and FDC02, up to 2,160 cubic metres per day from FD-C03R, and up to 1,296 cubic metres per day from FDC05
Surface Water Quality Program | City of Hamilton The City of Hamilton’s Water Division developed a Surface Water Quality Program (SWQP) that samples surface water locations monthly, throughout the City’s waterways
Water Use - Protecting Water The Woodward municipal system that draws water from Lake Ontario supplies water to the urban areas of Hamilton, including Dundas, Ancaster, and Waterdown This system also supplies areas of Halton Region and parts of the communities of Caledonia, Cayuga, and York in Haldimand County, which are all located outside of the Source Protection Area
Ontario Watershed Information Tool (OWIT) | ontario. ca This tool is used to create watershed boundaries and calculate watershed information within the land boundary of Ontario Watersheds are areas of land where surface water converges to a single point
Source Water Protection - Hamilton Conservation Authority Protecting the sources of our drinking water is a key government initiative to protect public health This follows up on the twenty-two recommendations for watershed-based source water protection made by the Walkerton Inquiry in 2004