New wellhead, pump station recommended for Greensville

The city has finished its environmental assessment on Greensville’s new municipal well and pumping station. 

The study was the last step in a years-long series of preparation to replace the town’s old municipal well, which has reached the end of its life. The well system was installed in 1975, meaning it is now 50 years old.

With the environmental study finished, the city says a new wellhead and pump station on the south side of Greensville’s Johnson Tew Park, at the end of Cedar Avenue, is recommended. 

The municipal well services 36 homes in Greensville and its replacement could cost upward of $6 million. Hamilton’s watershed management director, Cari Vanderperk, said the city is now obligated to provide water to those homes, even if installing individual private wells on all of the properties would cost less. 

The city will build the new pump and well before decommissioning the one Greensville residents currently use. 

Any requests for further environmental assessments can be made to the Minister of Environment and must be on the grounds that the request will prevent, mitigate or remedy adverse impacts on Indigenous treaty rights. 

In August 2024, lawyer for the Haudenosaunee Development Institute Aaron Detlor listed a handful of city projects with environmental assessments in Flamborough he said HDI should have been involved with. One of those projects was the Greensville Municipal Drinking Water System.