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Moncton tap water: Grade C, hardness 24 mg/L
By OpenStats · Built from official Canadian sources
Direct municipal dataC
Water quality grade
Fair
Graded against Health Canada drinking water guidelines
Lead within guidelinepH in range
Hardness vs provincial average24 mg/L · prov. avg 155 mg/L
Lead vs provincial average0.5 μg/L · prov. avg 0.2 μg/L
Hardness
24 mg/L
Lead
0.5 μg/L
≤ 5 μg/L
pH
8
6.5–8.5 range
Hardness
24 mg/L
Soft
Lead
0.5 μg/L
Max: 5 μg/L
pH
8
6.5–8.5
Chlorine
1 mg/L
Max: 4 mg/L
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Reading this page
Moncton water hardness is 24 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
Supply and treatment
How Moncton 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
- Turtle Creek Reservoir
- Tower Road Reservoir (Turtle Creek watershed)
Treatment plants
Moncton Drinking Water Treatment Plant
City-owned Level 4 plant in the Turtle Creek watershed; operated under long-term contract by Veolia; coagulates/filters and chemically conditions water for corrosion control; cyanobacteria (ozone / PAC) upgrades underway.
Distribution
Tri-community utility: City of Moncton supplies treated Turtle Creek watershed water to Moncton, Dieppe, and Riverview. Reservoirs sit about 10 km southwest of Moncton in Albert County; treated water is stored and pumped into the shared distribution system.
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
New Brunswick · 16 cities in sample
Hardness (city vs New Brunswick avg)24 mg/L
pH (city vs New Brunswick avg)8
Lead (city vs New Brunswick avg)0.5 μg/L
Fluoride (city vs New Brunswick avg)0.5 mg/L
Provincial average: hardness 155 mg/L · pH 7.6 · lead 0.2 μg/L · fluoride 0.6 mg/L
Full parameters
| Parameter | Reading | Health Canada guideline | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 24 mg/L | No health limit (aesthetic) | Compliant |
| pH | 8 | 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 | 3.8 NTU | ≤ 1 NTU (typical target) | Exceeds guideline |
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Source · New Brunswick Clean Water Act public drinking water data portal (Moncton WTP). Last updated 2026-10-07. Refreshed on the site's automated schedule.