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Drinking Water Quality and Supply

Niverville Drinking Water Quality

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Direct municipal data
B

Water quality grade

Good

Graded against Health Canada drinking water guidelines

Lead within guidelinepH in range
Hardness vs provincial average224 mg/L · prov. avg 166 mg/L
Lead vs provincial average0 μg/L · prov. avg 0.4 μg/L
Hardness
224 mg/L
Lead
0 μg/L
≤ 5 μg/L
pH
7.2
6.5–8.5 range
Hardness
224 mg/L
Very hard
Lead
0 μg/L
Max: 5 μg/L
pH
7.2
6.5–8.5
Chlorine
0.5 mg/L
Max: 4 mg/L

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Niverville's drinking water earns Grade B (Good). Hardness is 224 mg/L (very hard), and pH is 7.2 against Health Canada's 6.5–8.5 guideline.

Lead at 0 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 Niverville 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

Groundwater

Research confidence: medium

Source waters

  • groundwater

Treatment plants

  • Niverville 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.

Health parameters meet Health Canada limits; turbidity above the 1 NTU typical target and very hard water.

Health parameters meet Health Canada limits; turbidity exceeds the typical 1 NTU aesthetic target.

Figure 1 · Supply chain

From watershed to tap

Compared to provincial average

Manitoba · 13 cities in sample

Hardness (city vs Manitoba avg)224 mg/L
pH (city vs Manitoba avg)7.2
Lead (city vs Manitoba avg)0 μg/L
Fluoride (city vs Manitoba avg)0.6 mg/L

Provincial average: hardness 166 mg/L · pH 7.5 · lead 0.4 μg/L · fluoride 0.6 mg/L

Full parameters

ParameterReadingHealth Canada guidelineStatus
Hardness224 mg/LNo health limit (aesthetic)Compliant
pH7.26.5–8.5Compliant
Lead0 μg/L≤ 5 μg/LCompliant
Fluoride0.6 mg/L≤ 1.5 mg/LCompliant
Chlorine (free)0.5 mg/L≤ 4 mg/LCompliant
Turbidity2.5 NTU≤ 1 NTU (typical target)Exceeds guideline
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Source · ECCC / municipal open data (seed). Last updated 2026-09-01. Refreshed on the site's automated schedule.