Stormwater Management Master Plan

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.