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Drinking Water Quality and Supply

New Westminster Drinking Water Quality

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Direct municipal data
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A

Water quality grade

Excellent

Graded against Health Canada drinking water guidelines

Lead within guidelinepH in range
Hardness vs provincial average166 mg/L · prov. avg 162 mg/L
Lead vs provincial average0.6 μg/L · prov. avg 0.4 μg/L
Hardness
166 mg/L
Lead
0.6 μg/L
≤ 5 μg/L
pH
7.3999999999999995
6.5–8.5 range
Hardness
166 mg/L
Hard
Lead
0.6 μg/L
Max: 5 μg/L
pH
7.4
6.5–8.5
Chlorine
1.1 mg/L
Max: 4 mg/L

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New Westminster's drinking water earns Grade A (Excellent). Hardness is 166 mg/L (hard), and pH is 7.4 against Health Canada's 6.5–8.5 guideline.

Lead at 0.6 μg/L is below the 5 μg/L maximum, and fluoride is 0.5 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 New Westminster 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: medium

Source waters

  • surface

Treatment plants

  • New Westminster Water Treatment Plant

    From municipal open data or regional estimate (verify locally).

Cited sources

Outbound municipal or utility citations pending. See methodology for how supply research is gathered.

Supply notes summarize published utility materials. They are not a substitute for the issuing authority's current notices or for a licensed tap test.

All monitored parameters meet Health Canada guidelines.

All health parameters meet Health Canada guidelines with comfortable pH, hardness, and turbidity.

Figure 1 · Supply chain

From watershed to tap

Compared to provincial average

British Columbia · 58 cities in sample

Hardness (city vs British Columbia avg)166 mg/L
pH (city vs British Columbia avg)7.3999999999999995
Lead (city vs British Columbia avg)0.6 μg/L
Fluoride (city vs British Columbia avg)0.5 mg/L

Provincial average: hardness 162 mg/L · pH 7.6 · lead 0.4 μg/L · fluoride 0.6 mg/L

Full parameters

ParameterReadingHealth Canada guidelineStatus
Hardness166 mg/LNo health limit (aesthetic)Compliant
pH7.46.5–8.5Compliant
Lead0.6 μg/L≤ 5 μg/LCompliant
Fluoride0.5 mg/L≤ 1.5 mg/LCompliant
Chlorine (free)1.1 mg/L≤ 4 mg/LCompliant
Turbidity0.7 NTU≤ 1 NTU (typical target)Compliant
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Source · ECCC / municipal open data (seed). Last updated 2026-09-01. Refreshed on the site's automated schedule.