Who is going to enforce this? The Well Cap Police??? Good Grief...!!
What's next?!!!

Homeland Security.....

For the life of me I do not understand why it took so long to make this a requirement, whether it is enforceable or not. Who would not want to secure their well water and that of others on the same aquifer?

"What's next?".... you might consider that the howeowner/wellowner will quite possibly be required to pay for the water that is removed from the ground.

It is quite possible that, in the not too distant future, there will be a requirement for water meters on all wells to insure "user pay" ... even if one has already paid to have the well drilled, and regardless if it is on private land or not.

Touchy subject... but it is in the wind. Our water resources are being regarded in the same light as stumpage payments and other royalties from natural resources.

Recent legislation demands that all well drillers be approved and licensed by the province... digging your own well is pretty much discouraged... and all wells now have an identity log... paying for the water that comes out of them is not too far away, I fear.

Blessings

"... paying for the water that comes out of them is not too far away, I fear."

That would pay for the annual inspections.

Owl, I agree with you. Ideally it would be self-policing. The idea of well owners paying for the water was first floated as a trial balloon in the early 1990s, I remember.

It didn't fly then either. It seems to be grossly unfair that one has to pay for the water after paying (often a bundle) for installing the well, but it may indeed be considered in the not so distant future.

The city may be paying a fee for extracting the municipal water already and passing it on to the private users, for all I know.

Utility rates are very high, approaching $500 annually, for the individual private property.

Look at this new "law" from another point of view....how do you feel about an unprotected well that a small kid falls down and dies? This is not a stupid regulation at all, any more than "how to wire your house regulations" are not stupid either. Regulations are necessary, and I'm okay with them being enforcable in the event someone chooses to ignore this type of thing.

As far as 'water meters', even though this is off topic RRabbitt, we're going to need to start viewing water the same was as gas & oil & other resources eventually, and as one of the worst abusers/wasters of water (as all Canadians are), we all need to rethink our use of fresh water.

I agree that for safety reasons this regulation is necessary. And if eventually I am required to pay for the water that I draw out of my own well, then I guess the government had better make darn good and sure that it is of good quality! Free from contamination from other sources beyond my control or property line!

Too many laws, rules and taxes. It is gonna get worse.

Groundwater protection regulation! what will these morons think of next. Pretty soon you wont be allowed to take a piss on your own property. The sole reason for haveing a cap on your well should only be a saftey measure to ensure living things dont fall in it! Done deal no more paperwork!

I agree with northman. As usual we are going to get more Government intervention in private affairs, and of course more taxes.

As a general rule Government Civil Servants have nothing to do all day but to dream up different ways of extracting dollars out of taxpayers, and making life more complex through a series of rules and regulations. It matters little whether it is seat belt legislation, helmet laws, complex fishing and hunting rules and regulations, gun registrys, pay before you get your gas, etc; etc; etc; they always seem to come up with a something new.

Did you ever notice that they never come up with any restrictions on Government workers or politicians. How about a restriction on how many civil servants can go to the golf course before there work shift is ended. How about not using the Government vehicle to go to and from work. How about restricting them to 2 weeks paid holiday per year, and a pension that is the average of all pensions paid to other workers in Canada. How about no sick pay, or accumulated time off.

The Government in this Country and Province has their nose in every aspect of our lives, and they have taken a country that was once proud of their freedoms and converted it into a red tape nightmare.

However at the end of the day they cannot stop people from allowing their dogs to dump in school yards. They cant stop certain people from riding bicycles on the wrong side of the road, on sidewalks, without helmets. They cannot install, police, and keep clean a public washroom in the downtown area. They have little or no control over shoplifting, breaking and entering, assault, and car thefts.

People fornicate, defecate, urinate, and take drugs intraveinesouly 24 hours a day, in our downtown area, which makes it the biggest single health hazard in the City, and the Government has you cap your well.

In my opinion thats about par for the course.

Wow. P, you said it all, I think, and I agree with your comments.
Heres a thought, if the gov't bastards are going to tax the water we draw through our private wells, then they can give us a tax break on the costs of installing and maintaining the well too, so that every time I have to replace the pump motor, or pressure tank, it becomes an expense that I can use to defray income tax. Sounds logical to me, and fair and reasonable as well. Wait! Logic, fairness, reason, those are antonyms to anything that describes our governments. How silly to think that we could expect anything but idiocy from our politicians.
metalman.

Gather up your guns and live in a bunker so you can be ready when the evil goverment troops come to kill you all.

Not likely to happen here Buzz but it does happen all over the World, Burma was the last example. Kent University wasnt that long ago. Remember the Bay of Pigs. There are lots of examples of Governments out of control. Seems they can alway justify their actions.

During the dirty thirtys the Government hand troops on the roof tops on Hasting Street in Vancouver with loaded rifles. People were marching on Ottawa and armed troops were pulling them off the trains and throwing them in jails.

We just recently had an example of a Canadian Prime Minister John Chretian who stated sometime ago that Canadians would not be fighting in Iraq and he got a lot of political mileage out of the statement. We are now being advised that the Americans told us they didnt want us in Iraq, sent us to Afghanistan. How do you explain a Prime Minister that lies to the whole Nation in Parlimaent. Is this kind of crap not a threat to our way of life????

Dont for a minute think that if you dont protect your freedoms you wont lose them.

Amen Palopu...amen!