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Help is available for your winter

maintenance plan

Clean drinking water is everyone’s vided them with signs to display at the closed areas to
responsibility inform staff and visitors.
Salt, including de-icers and ice melters, impact water qual-
Closing areas can reduce slip and fall risks, protect your
ity – and not in a good way. Over me, the salt we put on
business from salt damage and protect our community’s
the ground can end up in our drinking water and cause it
drinking water.
to taste salty.
Help protect water
To address this concern,
The Region appreciates
the Region of Waterloo
the work the Hamilton
is helping businesses
Family Theatre Cambridge
with parking lots near
is doing to protect drink-
drinking water supply
ing water.
wells to complete their
mandatory winter main-
Does your business have
tenance plan. The plan
areas normally salted in
helps to reduce salt use
the winter you can close
while maintaining safety.
such as outdoor pa os,
If you are in a protected
extra parking spaces, re-
area (visit h ps://taps.
dundant walkways and
regionofwaterloo.ca to
stairways?
fi nd out), you will need a
plan, so there is no me
The Region has resources
like the present to con-
to help including free closed signs. While supplies last, or-
tact the Region.
der 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 Ave-
nue 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-profi t company that operates
the venue, was immediately on board to help.
Region of Waterloo Water Services
519-575-4400;
The fi rst step they took was to look for areas to close for
Deaf and Hard of Hearing (TTY): 519-575-4608
the winter months. Keeping in mind accessibility and fi re waterservices@regionofwaterloo.ca
exits, the theatre closed a large por on of the front en-
trance, a pa o and two sec ons of stairs. The Region pro-

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