04-19-2024, 05:20 PM
Development in southwest Kitchener threatens drinking water: Region of Waterloo report
Drinking water supplies for current and future residents is threatened by provincial legislation that opens 260 hectares (642 acres) of new lands for development on environmentally sensitive parts of southwest Kitchener, says a Region of Waterloo staff report.
Bill 162 which is expected to be passed into law before Queen’s Park closes for the summer, will allow development where recharge areas for the underground aquifers are located that supply nearly all the tap water for most of the region’s population.
“If development happens in the Regional Recharge area, there will be less water available to shallow and deep municipal supply aquifers of the Waterloo Moraine,” says the staff report released Wednesday.
“This threatens the sustainability of drinking water supply to current and future residents in the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo, and the Townships of North Dumfries, Wellesley, Wilmot, and Woolwich,” says the report.
Drinking water supplies for current and future residents is threatened by provincial legislation that opens 260 hectares (642 acres) of new lands for development on environmentally sensitive parts of southwest Kitchener, says a Region of Waterloo staff report.
Bill 162 which is expected to be passed into law before Queen’s Park closes for the summer, will allow development where recharge areas for the underground aquifers are located that supply nearly all the tap water for most of the region’s population.
“If development happens in the Regional Recharge area, there will be less water available to shallow and deep municipal supply aquifers of the Waterloo Moraine,” says the staff report released Wednesday.
“This threatens the sustainability of drinking water supply to current and future residents in the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo, and the Townships of North Dumfries, Wellesley, Wilmot, and Woolwich,” says the report.