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Direct municipal dataWater quality grade
Good
Graded against Health Canada drinking water guidelines
Halifax’s 20 mg/L hardness and 1 mg/L chlorine mean taste and scale together. Elite pitcher for the kitchen, shower filter for chlorine, Frizzlife NSF 53 for older peninsula plumbing — softener only after strips say you are tired of appliance scale.
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Halifax water hardness is 20 mg/L with pH 7.6.
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 Halifax 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.
Mixed surface and groundwater
Research confidence: high
J. Douglas Kline Water Supply Plant (Pockwock)
Largest Atlantic Canada plant; treats Pockwock Lake for Halifax, Bedford, Sackville, Beaverbank, Timberlea and related areas; ISO 14001 registered.
Lake Major Water Supply Plant
Treats Lake Major for Dartmouth, Cole Harbour, Eastern Passage, Westphal, North Preston and related areas; ISO 14001 registered.
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Serves Halifax Stanfield International Airport area; ISO 14001 registered.
Halifax Water (Halifax Regional Water Commission) supplies Halifax Regional Municipality customers from nine surface watersheds and two groundwater wellhead areas. Three large plants plus six smaller community plants distribute to ~360,000 customers; interactive 'Where Does My Water Come From' map identifies plant by address.
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
Nova Scotia · 9 cities in sample
Provincial average: hardness 175 mg/L · pH 7.4 · lead 0.3 μg/L · fluoride 0.6 mg/L
| Parameter | Reading | Health Canada guideline | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 20 mg/L | No health limit (aesthetic) | Compliant |
| pH | 7.6 | 6.5–8.5 | Compliant |
| Lead | 0.5 μg/L | ≤ 5 μg/L | Compliant |
| Fluoride | 0.5 mg/L | ≤ 1.5 mg/L | Compliant |
| Chlorine (free) | 1 mg/L | ≤ 4 mg/L | Compliant |
| Turbidity | 1.4 NTU | ≤ 1 NTU (typical target) | Exceeds guideline |
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