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Blackfalds tap water: Grade B, hardness 147 mg/L

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Regional estimate
B

Water quality grade

Good

Graded against Health Canada drinking water guidelines

Lead within guidelinepH in range
Hardness vs provincial average147 mg/L · prov. avg 178 mg/L
Lead vs provincial average0.3 μg/L · prov. avg 0.3 μg/L
Hardness
147 mg/L
Lead
0.3 μg/L
≤ 5 μg/L
pH
7
6.5–8.5 range
Hardness
147 mg/L
Hard
Lead
0.3 μg/L
Max: 5 μg/L
pH
7
6.5–8.5
Chlorine
0.8 mg/L
Max: 4 mg/L
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Blackfalds's drinking water earns Grade B (Good). Hardness is 147 mg/L (hard), and pH is 7 against Health Canada's 6.5–8.5 guideline.

Lead at 0.3 μg/L is below the 5 μg/L maximum, and fluoride is 0.7 mg/L against a guideline of ≤ 1.5 mg/L.

How to use this page: read the headline metric and provincial comparison first, then supply and treatment notes, then the source footer for the underlying dataset.

Watershed to tap

Supply and treatment

How Blackfalds draws, treats, and distributes drinking water, from municipal and utility publications. Chemistry grades above come from separate parameter records; this section does not invent plant lab figures.

Source type

Surface water

Research confidence: medium

Source waters

  • Red Deer River

Treatment plants

  • City of Red Deer Water Treatment Plant — wholesale via NRDRWSC

    Blackfalds receives treated Red Deer River water via the North Red Deer River Water Services Commission pipeline.

Distribution

Town distribution system downstream of regional transmission.

Health parameters meet Health Canada limits; turbidity above the 1 NTU typical target.

Health parameters meet Health Canada limits; turbidity exceeds the typical 1 NTU aesthetic target.

Figure 1 · Supply chain

From watershed to tap

Compared to provincial average

Alberta · 51 cities in sample

Hardness (city vs Alberta avg)147 mg/L
pH (city vs Alberta avg)7
Lead (city vs Alberta avg)0.3 μg/L
Fluoride (city vs Alberta avg)0.7 mg/L

Provincial average: hardness 178 mg/L · pH 7.5 · lead 0.3 μg/L · fluoride 0.6 mg/L

Full parameters

ParameterReadingHealth Canada guidelineStatus
Hardness147 mg/LNo health limit (aesthetic)Compliant
pH76.5–8.5Compliant
Lead0.3 μg/L≤ 5 μg/LCompliant
Fluoride0.7 mg/L≤ 1.5 mg/LCompliant
Chlorine (free)0.8 mg/L≤ 4 mg/LCompliant
Turbidity2.8 NTU≤ 1 NTU (typical target)Exceeds guideline
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Source · ECCC / municipal open data (seed). Last updated 2026-09-01. Refreshed on the site's automated schedule.