Rick Elg, Public Works Supervisor at the Municipality of North Perth, and Donna Clarkson, Risk Management Official with several municipalities in the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Drinking Water Source Protection Region Rick Elg, Public Works Supervisor at the Municipality of North Perth, and Donna Clarkson, Risk Management Official with several municipalities in the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Drinking Water Source Protection Region
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ABCA, MVCA Release 3rd Video On Water Source Protection

The Ausable Bayfield and Maitland Valley Conservation Authorities have released the third in its series of three videos aimed at protecting drinking water sources.

ABCA Communication Specialist Tim Cumming explains the newest video features water treatment and utility operators from Huron East and North Perth outlining how business owners and homeowners can protect drinking water. The video is available online at sourcewaterinfo.on.ca, and focuses on things like the safe storage of fuel and chemicals and other threats to drinking water quality.

But Cumming points the message also applies to homeowners and their wells and septic systems. Cumming says the video is about three minutes long.

ABCA Communication Specialist Tim Cumming explaining safe fuel storage.

Rick Elg, Public Works Supervisor at the Municipality of North Perth, and Donna Clarkson, Risk Management Official with several municipalities in the Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley Drinking Water Source Protection Region explaining safe fuel storage.

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