Ontario Drinking Water Stewardship Program Funding

PROGRAM DETAILS - Early Response Program

Over $400,000 in funding was recently announced by the Province for stewardship work in the Saugeen, Grey Sauble, Northern Bruce Peninsula Source Protection Region. The funding will be available to landowners near municipal wells with specific circumstances that have the potential to be a significant drinking water threat.

Media Release on New Stewardship Funding (Feb. 01, 2011)

The funding will be allocated through an application process and will be subject to review by a committee. Total funding is limited to the $406,700 provided by the province.

Landowners who have potential significant drinking water threats will able to apply for grants on projects that help to deal with these significant threats.

Application Deadlines:

Five application periods have been established. Completed applications submitted by the deadline date will be reviewed at the next committee meeting.

   May 31,2011
   August 31, 2011
   November 30, 2011
   March 31, 2012
   June 30, 2012

Application Packages

Each application package contains pages explaining: eligibility criteria; the application process; terms and conditions of grant agreement should a project be approved; and decision-making guidelines used by the Technical Review Committee. The second part of the applciation package is the application form itself. Staff would be pleased to answer any questions. Use the package that corresponds to the type of project you plan to undertake. If there is not a specific package about your type of project, then use the general Application Package.

   General Application Package

   Septic System Application Package

   Waste Disposal Application Package

   Fuel Haandling and Storage Application Package

   Dense Non_aqueous Phase Liquids (DNAPL) Application Package

   Agricultural Source Material Application Package

   Well Upgrade or Decommissioning Application Package

About the funding:
Clean Water Act funding will be provided by the Ministry of the Environment to partnering Conservation Authorities under the Ontario Drinking Water Stewardship Program. A total of $28 million was committed by the Province over a four-year period. Of the $7 million available in 2011-2012, a large percentage will support actions by property owners to protect municipal drinking water sources, namely municipal wellheads and municipal surface water intakes.

For more information on the Clean Water Act, please visit the Ministry of the Environment website. Additional information is available on the Conservation Ontario website. Drinking Water Ontario is a web portal run by the Ministry of the Environment with information on Ontario's drinking water.

Early Actions funding

Nearly $700,000 in grants was provided to landowners between 2008 and 2010 as part of the Early Actions program. We wish to thank all those landowners who have voluntarily taken action to help protect sources of drinking water.