Loch Lomond Watershed Management Plan

Building the Loch Lomond Watershed Management Plan

Maintaining good, clean source water for our drinking water supply is extremely important to ensuring that Saint John Water can continue to provide quality drinking water to residents. Although water is considered a renewable resource, with an expanding city and more impacts to water quality, protecting our water supply is now more important than ever. Preserving our drinking water for the future will ensure that generations to come will have good quality water to drink and our natural resources and landscapes will remain intact. As such, Saint John Water has begun a project to update watershed management plans and practices within the drinking water supply.

Get involved with your Watershed Management Plan

Over the next two years, Saint John Water and its partners will work to identify high-risk activities, land uses, and impacts (runoff, harmful bacteria such as cyanobacteria blooms, invasive species, etc.) to water quality within the drinking water watershed and create plans and practices to reduce these risks. Through this process, our goal is to strengthen the sustainability of the watershed area to ensure it is more resilient to climate change, extreme weather events, natural or manmade disasters, and put the protection of our water supply first to ensure the prosperity of the city for future generations.

Watershed management looks at all aspects of the land and water that make up a drainage area - from forests and other natural resources to human impacts and pollution. Building off of modern watershed management principles, environmental guidelines outlined in Plan SJ, and best practices from other municipalities, updated plans and strategies will be developed to reduce future risk to our drinking water supply.

Attend an Engagement Session on May 4 or 9

We invite residents to join us and learn how drinking water is managed at one of our Engagement Sessions. We want to hear feedback from residents about how they use the land and water, their current activities and what they think should be considered when building the Watershed Management Plan.

Join us on May 4 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Saint John Police Community Room located at 1 Peel Plaza, Saint John or on May 9 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the H.O.P.E Community Centre located at 4347 Loch Lomond Road, Saint John.

Engagement Session Agenda

5:15 p.m. - Doors open
5:30 p.m. - Meet the team
5:40 p.m. - Presentation
6:00 p.m. - Workshop time
6:40 p.m. - Share your workshop findings
7:00 p.m. - Conclusion and end of Engagement Session