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Direct municipal dataWater quality grade
Good
Graded against Health Canada drinking water guidelines
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Charlottetown water hardness is 167 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 Charlottetown 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.
Groundwater
Research confidence: high
Charlottetown Water Utility disinfection / fluoridation facilities
No conventional surface-water filtration plant; groundwater from multiple wellfields is disinfected and fluoridated before distribution.
Charlottetown Water and Sewer Utility extracts from about thirteen wells across municipal wellfields in the Winter River watershed (city materials variously describe three or four wellfields) and distributes citywide. PEI as a province is entirely dependent on groundwater for drinking water.
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
Prince Edward Island · 5 cities in sample
Provincial average: hardness 198 mg/L · pH 7.6 · lead 0.3 μg/L · fluoride 0.5 mg/L
| Parameter | Reading | Health Canada guideline | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 167 mg/L | No health limit (aesthetic) | Compliant |
| pH | 7.8 | 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 | 2.1 NTU | ≤ 1 NTU (typical target) | Exceeds guideline |
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