The Issues

What’s the latest in our community?

Wellington Water Watchers and our friends and partners are active with several current community issues.  Here are links to pages about several of these:

DoLime Quarry

For several years now, we have been keeping a close eye on the ongoing quarrying at the Dolime site owned by River Valley Development. Due to the quarry’s blasting into the aquitard material (the protective layer covering our aquifer) a fissure was discovered in 2006 posing a potential threat of contamination to our ground water source. We have been in constant communication with the City of Guelph, the Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of Natural Resources and River Valley Development since then acting as a watchdog group concerned with the safety of our water. Check here to see what is being done and where we’re going next.

Melancthon Quarry

The proposed quarry in Melancthon is of enormous proportions!  Its impact on our water quality, on our health, on our farm land (some of the best in the province), and our entire region, means we must do what we can to prevent this development.

Nestle Bottling Plant

Nestle Waters Canada has it’s largest Canadian bottling facility located in Aberfoyle, just south of Guelph. They have a permit to take a maximum of 3.6 million litres per day of our pristine ground water and package into small plastic bottles. This is a terrible waste of our community’s precious water resources and a wasteful use of our planet’s resources. Nestle also extracts a maximum of 1.1 million litres per day of our precious ground water from their well located in Hillsburg and ships this water by multiple tanker trucks every day to their Aberfoyle plant for bottling. As taxpayers, we are paying an enormous burden for this Trans-National Company’s profits. As citizens of this watershed, we are lessening our resilience for our needs and our children’s future water needs. To keep updated on news about Nestle check here.