Grand River Source Protection Plan

Please note the following documents may not be accessible to people with disabilities. If you have a disability and require a document in an alternate format, please contact us.   

The plan has two volumes:

1. Volume 1 (PDF - 1 MB) provides the history of source protection planning and the Clean Water Act,  plan objectives, and description of the watershed.
2. Volume 2 contains the plan policies for each municipality:
1. Chapters 1-2 (PDF - 411 KB): Introduction, how to read the plan policies
2. Chapter 3 (PDF - 1 MB): Township of Southgate
3. Chapters 4-6 (PDF - 4 MB): Townships of Amaranth, East Garafraxa, Melancthon and Town of Grand Valley
4. Chapter 7 (PDF - 15 MB): County of Wellington
5. Chapter 8 (PDF - 5 MB): City of Guelph
6. Chapter 9 (PDF - 2 MB): Halton Region
7. Chapter 10 (PDF - 18 MB): Region of Waterloo
8. Chapter 11 (PDF - 1 MB): Township of Perth East
9. Chapter 12 (PDF - 2 MB): County of Oxford
10. Chapter 13 (PDF - 1 MB): City of Hamilton (Lynden)
11. Chapter 14 (PDF - 8 MB): County of Brant
12. Chapter 15 (PDF - 4 MB): City of Brantford
13. Chapter 16 (PDF - 1 MB): County of Haldimand

Go to the Grand River Assessment Report page to learn about the scientific and technical basis of the plan.

These documents will help you to understand the plan policies and how they apply in the watershed.

• The Explanatory Document (PDF - 2 MB) explains the reasons for including the different policies in the plan. Please note this document may not be accessible to people with disabilities. If you have a disability and require a document in an alternate format, please contact us.
• Source Protection Information Atlas: use this Provincial tool to search your property and see if it could be impacted by source protection plan policies.
• How to Read the Source Protection Plans
• The Tables of Drinking Water Threats: we use these tables to identify and rank potential significant drinking water threats in the assessment report.

These annual reports outline the progress made in implementing the plan for the Grand River Source Protection Area.  

Please note the following documents may not be accessible to people with disabilities. If you have a disability and require a document in an alternate format, please contact us. 

• 2023 Provincial Report (PDF - 394 KB), written summary, nine pages
• 2022 Provincial Report (PDF - 339 KB), written summary, seven pages
• 2021 Provincial Report (PDF - 330 KB), written summary, six pages
• 2020 Provincial Report (PDF - 344 KB), written summary, seven pages  
• 2019 Provincial Report (PDF - 222 KB), written summary, nine pages 
• 2018 Provincial Report (PDF - 220 KB), written summary, nine pages