The Act is due come into force in 2013 and 2014, but no one yet knows how many farms will be affected or how the rules will apply
by DON STONEMAN
As few as 1,500 farms and as many as 2,500 across the province have been identified as “significant threats” to drinking water wells and may be subject to restrictive government policies when the Clean Water Act is implemented in 2013 and 2014.
University of Guelph professor John FitzGibbon, co-chair of the Ontario Farm Environmental Coalition (OFEC), describes the timetable associated with developing these policies as “tight.”