A privately operated laboratory and its owners have been convicted for violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Central Ontario Analytical Laboratory Inc. and a numbered company were located on Burnside Line and owned by Lesley and Russell Johnston and their daughter Teresa Johnston, according to Ontario’s ministry of environment and climate change.

The convictions relate to offering or providing a drinking water testing service without the authority of, or not in accordance with a drinking water testing license, and conducting a drinking water test contrary to a drinking water testing license.

The laboratory and its owners are now facing fines of more than $246,000, the province notes.