GRANTS AVAILABLE FOR WATER PROTECTION

This small article is on page 3 of today's Woolwich Observer. These grants are under the stewardship of the (GRCA) Grand River Conservation Authority and are to be used on properties near municipal wells and surface water intakes to drinking water systems. Capping of unused wells as well as upgrades to active wells to make them less susceptible to surface contamantion is part of the program. Clearly this would have been helpful a decade ago in Walkerton when Well 5 was contaminated from manure.