The Grey County Emergency Management Plan is available here
Community Emergency Management
Emergencies are defined as: Situations or impending situations caused by forces of nature, accident or an intentional act that constitutes a danger of major proportions to life and property.
Emergencies affect public safety, meaning the health, welfare and property as well as the environmental and economic health of the Township of Southgate.
In order to protect residents, businesses and visitors, the Township of Southgate requires a coordinated emergency response by a number of agencies under the direction of the Municipal Emergency Management Committee. These are distinct arrangements and procedures from the normal day-to-day operations carried out by emergency services.
The Township of Southgate Emergency Management Committee has adopted an emergency management plan. Every official, municipal department and agency must be prepared to carry out assigned responsibilities in an emergency. The emergency management plan has been prepared to provide key officials, agencies and departments of the Township of Southgate important emergency response information related to:
- Arrangements, services and equipment; and
- Roles and responsibilities during an emergency
In addition to work carried out at the municipal level, it is critically important that residents be informed of the Emergency Management Plan and take necessary steps to prepare themselves for the event of an emergency. The below resources outline how you and your household can prepare and stay informed during emergency management situations.
Grey County Emergency Management Plan
Southgate Emergency Management Plan
The Township of Southgate's Emergency Management Plan is available here
Winter weather has been identified as a common hazard throughout the Township of Southgate. Be prepared when winter weather hits and know where to go for up-to-date information.
For road closures please visit Ontario 511 and learn more about the services they offer, including Track My Plow
Additional Emergency Resources
| Power Outage Information |
| For information on what to do if your power goes out, please visit Hydro One's Power Outages and Safety page. |
| Emergency Preparedness for Farm Animals |
| Emergency Preparedness for Farm Animals |
The way our world communicates has changed in recent years. In keeping with emerging emergency communications trends, the Township has adopted the VoyentAlert emergency notification system to help residents stay informed in the event of a public emergency. You can sign up for real-time updates through VoyentAlert here
In times of crisis, it is important that residents have access to trusted, timely and accurate information to ensure their own safety and that of their family and loved ones. In response to this need, the Township has chosen Voyent Alert as the communication service provider for these kinds of events. Voyent Alert is a multi-purpose communication service used to send alerts to residents, businesses, and visitors during critical events like fires or floods as well as for relevant day-to-day communications such as snow removal advisories, planned maintenance, water advisories, etc.
VoyentAlert shares emergency alerts in your area that are relevant to you, and you get to choose which types of notifications you will receive. Your preferences can be changed at any time.
Personalized Communications: Voyent Alert provides informative communications. Critical information such as emergency shelter locations and preferred evacuation routes from your location are provided.
Follow Multiple Locations: Voyent Alert allows you to create and follow multiple locations such as “Kids' School” or “Mom’s House”. Any event or communication related to your followed locations will be forwarded to you along your preferred communication channel.
No Message Fatigue: Voyent Alert’s smart alerting capabilities ensure that you will only get notified when a communication is relevant to you or one of the locations you are following.
Communications Your Way: Receive alerts over a wide variety of communication channels including mobile apps, text/SMS alerting, email or voice calling You can register for all or one of them.
Privacy is Paramount: Registration is anonymous, and no information volunteered or derived is shared or used for marketing or data harvesting purposes. Locational information from your followed locations is only used to determine its proximity to an alert event and to provide critical context within the communications (such as distance and direction).
Leaving is Easy: Both mobile applications and web-based accounts provide access to an unsubscribe feature accessed via the menu icon on the top right of the screen/page. If the service isn’t working out simply click on the “Unsubscribe” button and you won’t be hearing from us again
Contact Us
Township of Southgate
185667 Grey County Road 9
Dundalk, Ontario N0C 1B0
Phone: 519-923-2110
Email: info@southgate.ca
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