Long Point Region Source Protection Area

The Long Point Region watershed takes in the area drained by 14 major waterways that empty into Lake Erie. Among them are Big Otter Creek, Big Creek, Lynn River-Black Creek, Nanticoke Creek and Sandusk Creek.

These creeks drain an area of 2,780 square kilometres in parts of Elgin, Norfolk, Oxford, Brant and Haldimand counties.

Agriculture is the main land use in the watershed. Major communities include Port Burwell in Elgin County; Norwich and Tillsonburg in Oxford County; Delhi, Waterford, Simcoe and Port Dover in Norfolk County; and Jarvis and Hagersville in Haldimand County.

The total population is about 114,000 people. Nearly two-thirds of those people use municipal water supply for their drinking water and other water needs. Roughly 75 per cent use groundwater of the more than 61,000 residents using the municipal water supply, the rest use water supplied by Lake Erie. The remaining residents of the watershed use private water sources for their drinking water supply.

Explore the Long Point Region Source Protection Area

• An update of the Long Point Region Source Protection Plan came into effect May 22, 2020
• Read the Assessment Report
• Read background reports
• Use the Province's mapping tool to search a specific location and see if it is in a vulnerable area