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Direct municipal dataWater quality grade
Fair
Graded against Health Canada drinking water guidelines
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Brandon water hardness is 150 mg/L, from the city's published water quality reporting.
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
How Brandon 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.
Surface water
Research confidence: high
Brandon Water Treatment Facility
City-owned plant at 108 26th Street drawing Assiniboine River water through riverside intake wells. Conventional multi-barrier process (solid-contact clarification, filtration, chlorination, UV). Major membrane-building expansion planned to operate in parallel with the conventional plant by about 2029.
Treated water is pumped from the facility into the municipal distribution system serving residential, institutional, industrial, and commercial customers under a provincial Office of Drinking Water operating licence.
Health parameters meet Health Canada limits; turbidity above the 1 NTU typical target.
One or more parameters exceed a Health Canada drinking water guideline or turbidity target.
Figure 1 · Supply chain
From watershed to tap
Manitoba · 13 cities in sample
Provincial average: hardness 163 mg/L · pH 7.5 · lead 0.4 μg/L · fluoride 0.6 mg/L
| Parameter | Reading | Health Canada guideline | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 150 mg/L | No health limit (aesthetic) | Compliant |
| pH | 6.9 | 6.5–8.5 | Compliant |
| Lead | 0.4 μg/L | ≤ 5 μg/L | Compliant |
| Fluoride | 0.6 mg/L | ≤ 1.5 mg/L | Compliant |
| Chlorine (free) | 0.9 mg/L | ≤ 4 mg/L | Compliant |
| Turbidity | 3.7 NTU | ≤ 1 NTU (typical target) | Exceeds guideline |
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