Both have been identified as facing a risk from farm manure
and the application of “non-agricultural source material” which could be sewage
sludge.
A well at Mannheim, on the western outskirts of Kitchener,
has tested as having more than the limit of 10 parts per million nitrates.
They could be coming from manure or septic systems in the
village, but more likely from both, says a report to the Lake Erie Source Water
Protection Committee.
A well on the Bethel Road, near Paris, is in a similar
position, but there is also a mention of a potential contamination from farm
pesticides and also from two landfill sites.
The village of Richmond in the municipality of Bayham in the
Long Point Region also has a well that is deemed at risk of pollution from
manure and “non-agricultural source material.”
The reports will be considered by the committee at its next
meeting Feb. 5 and might lead to approval of recommendations that staff be
authorized to follow up.
