Pearson reappointed as local Source Water Protection committee chair

The Ausable Bayfield Maitland Valley (ABMV) Drinking Water Source Protection Committee (SPC) is (front row, left to right): Mary Ellen Foran, Agriculture; Joy Rutherford, Environment; Carol Leeming, Agriculture; Alyssa Keller, Public-at-Large; (back row) Chair Matt Pearson; Dave Frayne, Municipalities (South-West); Paul Heffer, Municipalities (Central); Allan Rothwell, Municipalities (East); John Thompson, Municipalities (North); Rowland Howe, Economic – Industry; Philip Keightley, Economic – Commerce; and Doug Hocking, Property Owner. Not in photo is Jennette Walker, Environment. The committee helps to reduce risk to municipal drinking water sources (groundwater drawn for treatment through municipal wells; and surface water drawn for treatment from Lake Huron intakes) in the Maitland Valley and Ausable Bayfield source protection areas. The SPC does this by putting into action locally developed and provincially approved source protection plans. (Contributed photo)