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ADVERTORIAL

Help is available for your winter

maintenance plan

Clean drinking water is everyone’s provided them with signs to display at the closed areas to
responsibility inform staff and visitors.
Salt, including de-icers and ice melters, impact water Closing areas can reduce slip and fall risks, protect your
quality – and not in a good way. Over time, the salt we put business from salt damage and protect our community’s
on the ground can end up in our drinking water and cause drinking water.
it to taste salty.
Help protect water
To address this concern,
the Region of Waterloo The Region appreciates
is helping businesses the work the Hamilton
with parking lots near Family Theatre Cambridge
drinking water supply is doing to protect
wells to complete their drinking water.
mandatory winter
maintenance plan. Does your business have
The plan helps to areas normally salted in
reduce salt use while the winter you can close
maintaining safety. If such as outdoor patios,
you are in a protected extra parking spaces,
area (visit https://taps. redundant walkways and
regionofwaterloo.ca to stairways?
find out), you will need a
plan, so there is no time The Region has resources
like the present to contact the Region. to help including free closed signs. While supplies last,
order your free closed sign at www.regionofwaterloo.ca/
The Hamilton Family Theatre Cambridge winterplan.
is a water protector

The Hamilton Family Theatre Cambridge on Grand
Avenue is near a drinking water supply well. The Region of
Waterloo worked with the theatre to come up with ways
to reduce salt use without compromising safety. Drayton
Entertainment, the not-for-profit company that operates
the venue, was immediately on board to help.
Region of Waterloo Water Services
519-575-4400;
The first step they took was to look for areas to close Deaf and Hard of Hearing (TTY): 519-575-4608
for the winter months. Keeping in mind accessibility and waterservices@regionofwaterloo.ca
fire exits, the theatre closed a large portion of the front
entrance, a patio and two sections of stairs. The Region

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