Kettle Creek Source Protection Area

The Kettle Creek watershed is 520 square kilometres of agricultural and urban lands that drain into Lake Erie. The watershed includes parts of Elgin County, Middlesex County, St. Thomas and London. About 80 per cent of the watershed is farmland, 15 per cent is forested or marginal land, and five per cent is urbanized.

The watershed has two municipal drinking water systems:

1. The Belmont Water Supply System has two wells that provide water to about 1,900 people in the village of Belmont; and
2. The Elgin Area Primary Water Supply System has a Lake Erie intake at Port Stanley. It provides water to about 125,000 people in the cities of St. Thomas and London, the municipalities of Bayham, Malahide, Central Elgin, Southwold, Dutton Dunwich, and the Town of Aylmer.

Explore the Kettle Creek Source Protection Area

• Read the Kettle Creek Source Protection Plan
• Read the Assessment Report
• Read the background reports
• Use the Province's mapping tool to search a specific location and see if it is in a vulnerable area

Kettle Creek Source Protection Plan Update

Read the comprehensive update to the Kettle Creek Source Protection Plan completed under section 36 of the Clean Water Act, 2006 that came into effect on August 15, 2024.