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Leduc tap water: Grade C, hardness 117 mg/L
By OpenStats · Built from official Canadian sources
Regional estimateC
Water quality grade
Fair
Graded against Health Canada drinking water guidelines
Lead within guidelinepH in range
Hardness vs provincial average117 mg/L · prov. avg 178 mg/L
Lead vs provincial average0.5 μg/L · prov. avg 0.3 μg/L
Hardness
117 mg/L
Lead
0.5 μg/L
≤ 5 μg/L
pH
7.5
6.5–8.5 range
Hardness
117 mg/L
Moderate
Lead
0.5 μg/L
Max: 5 μg/L
pH
7.5
6.5–8.5
Chlorine
1 mg/L
Max: 4 mg/L
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Reading this page
Leduc's drinking water earns Grade C (Fair). Hardness is 117 mg/L (moderate), and pH is 7.5 against Health Canada's 6.5–8.5 guideline.
Lead at 0.5 μg/L is below the 5 μg/L maximum, and fluoride is 0.6 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 Leduc 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: high
Source waters
- North Saskatchewan River
Treatment plants
EPCOR E.L. Smith and Rossdale plants — wholesale via CRSWSC
Capital Region Southwest Water Services Commission buys treated water from EPCOR and transmits it to Leduc and other southwest capital-region members.
Distribution
CRSWSC booster station on Highway 2 south feeds a transmission main into Leduc with laterals to Beaumont, Calmar, Leduc County, the Edmonton International Airport, and other members. Leduc operates local distribution, flushing, and backflow programs.
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
Compared to provincial average
Alberta · 51 cities in sample
Hardness (city vs Alberta avg)117 mg/L
pH (city vs Alberta avg)7.5
Lead (city vs Alberta avg)0.5 μg/L
Fluoride (city vs Alberta avg)0.6 mg/L
Provincial average: hardness 178 mg/L · pH 7.5 · lead 0.3 μg/L · fluoride 0.6 mg/L
Full parameters
| Parameter | Reading | Health Canada guideline | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 117 mg/L | No health limit (aesthetic) | Compliant |
| pH | 7.5 | 6.5–8.5 | Compliant |
| Lead | 0.5 μg/L | ≤ 5 μg/L | Compliant |
| Fluoride | 0.6 mg/L | ≤ 1.5 mg/L | Compliant |
| Chlorine (free) | 1 mg/L | ≤ 4 mg/L | Compliant |
| Turbidity | 3.8 NTU | ≤ 1 NTU (typical target) | Exceeds guideline |
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