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Stormwater Management Master Plan

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We want to hear from you

How we manage stormwater affects you. It also affects our drinking water supply and our environment. Your feedback is an important part of updating the master plan. The City will look for your feedback throughout the master plan update, both in-person and online.

Here On Have Your Say - The Stormwater Management Master Plan was approved by Council on April 27th. Our next milestone is to complete the EA Process through a Notice of Study Completion.

The Q&A tool remains open if you would like to ask the project team a question. Your feedback will be incorporated into the overall project documentation.

You can also tell us about flooding, erosion or other issues you have noticed by using the online mapping activity found in the Places tab below. Hearing your experiences with stormwater management will help us develop recommendations for a preferred stormwater management strategy.

To get project updates, you can join our mailing list by contacting the project leads listed on the right hand side of the page.

Learn more about stormwater and what it means to you

Check out our Stormwater Management Master Plan Multimedia Page to learn about Guelph's stormwater management system, the study we are doing to update the plan, and how our current system works!

The process

We’re updating the City's 2012 Stormwater Management Master Plan to ensure we manage stormwater (rain and snowmelt) to help protect Guelph’s water supply and environment sustainably.

The master plan is a long-term plan that looks at how the City is currently managing stormwater and guides how we will continue to do so over the next 25 years. It will take into account government legislation, technological advances, and infrastructure needs. It will address issues we face today like flood control, maintaining the quality of our local waterways (rivers, lakes, and streams), and drinking water supply (groundwater) while protecting the environment and maintaining the local water balance.

This study is being carried out according to the Municipal Engineers Association Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (2011, as amended), which is an approved Class of Environmental Assessment under the Environmental Assessment Act. An environmental assessment will document the results from this study and will be made available for public review. At that time, residents, Indigenous communities, and other interested persons or groups will be informed of when and where the environmental assessment can be reviewed.

We want to hear from you

How we manage stormwater affects you. It also affects our drinking water supply and our environment. Your feedback is an important part of updating the master plan. The City will look for your feedback throughout the master plan update, both in-person and online.

Here On Have Your Say - The Stormwater Management Master Plan was approved by Council on April 27th. Our next milestone is to complete the EA Process through a Notice of Study Completion.

The Q&A tool remains open if you would like to ask the project team a question. Your feedback will be incorporated into the overall project documentation.

You can also tell us about flooding, erosion or other issues you have noticed by using the online mapping activity found in the Places tab below. Hearing your experiences with stormwater management will help us develop recommendations for a preferred stormwater management strategy.

To get project updates, you can join our mailing list by contacting the project leads listed on the right hand side of the page.

Learn more about stormwater and what it means to you

Check out our Stormwater Management Master Plan Multimedia Page to learn about Guelph's stormwater management system, the study we are doing to update the plan, and how our current system works!

The process

We’re updating the City's 2012 Stormwater Management Master Plan to ensure we manage stormwater (rain and snowmelt) to help protect Guelph’s water supply and environment sustainably.

The master plan is a long-term plan that looks at how the City is currently managing stormwater and guides how we will continue to do so over the next 25 years. It will take into account government legislation, technological advances, and infrastructure needs. It will address issues we face today like flood control, maintaining the quality of our local waterways (rivers, lakes, and streams), and drinking water supply (groundwater) while protecting the environment and maintaining the local water balance.

This study is being carried out according to the Municipal Engineers Association Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (2011, as amended), which is an approved Class of Environmental Assessment under the Environmental Assessment Act. An environmental assessment will document the results from this study and will be made available for public review. At that time, residents, Indigenous communities, and other interested persons or groups will be informed of when and where the environmental assessment can be reviewed.

Consultation has concluded

Stormwater management master plan: July 2022 project update

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What we’ve heard so far
On October 28, 2020, we invited Guelph residents to the first virtual open house for the stormwater management master plan to:
- Share information about what the master plan includes
- Help our community understand how Guelph’s stormwater management systems work
- Answer a survey and join a mapping activity to provide ideas for and experiences with stormwater management in Guelph
- Share the criteria we’ll use to make decisions and recommendations
More than 130 people visited the virtual open house and 20 people took the survey. Here’s what we heard:
- People said that stormwater runoff is a serious concern in Guelph. On a scale of 10, the average rating was 7.5, however, most people rated the seriousness at 8 or higher.
- People expressed a high level of concern about the environmental quality of our local streams and rivers. Most people rated their level of concern as eight or above, with 8.7 being the average rating.
- Most people (88 per cent) said they would support for road changes or improvements with ‘green’ stormwater features such as updated stormwater management ponds, new curb and gutter systems, bioswales, grassed channels and underground pipe systems.
- People indicated a personal willingness to implement solutions that could help reduce runoff from private property except installing a green roof. People were most willing to add roof downspout connections, use rain barrels or cisterns, plant trees and create rain gardens.
View the full engagement summary report.
Next steps
We’re evaluating options and identifying projects to make stormwater management in Guelph better. We’ll reach back out to the community again later this year (2022) to present our recommendations and get your feedback.