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Parksville's 83 mg/L supply is relatively soft — filtration is mostly about chlorine taste. A certified pitcher or compact under-sink unit is enough for most homes.
Parksville tap water: Grade A, hardness 83 mg/L
By OpenStats · Built from official Canadian sources
Regional estimateA
Water quality grade
Excellent
Graded against Health Canada drinking water guidelines
Lead within guidelinepH in range
Hardness vs provincial average83 mg/L · prov. avg 142 mg/L
Lead vs provincial average0.3 μg/L · prov. avg 0.4 μg/L
Hardness
83 mg/L
Lead
0.3 μg/L
≤ 5 μg/L
pH
8.1
6.5–8.5 range
Hardness
83 mg/L
Moderate
Lead
0.3 μg/L
Max: 5 μg/L
pH
8.1
6.5–8.5
Chlorine
0.8 mg/L
Max: 4 mg/L
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Reading this page
Parksville's drinking water earns Grade A (Excellent). Hardness is 83 mg/L (moderate), and pH is 8.1 against Health Canada's 6.5–8.5 guideline.
Lead at 0.3 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 Parksville 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
Mixed surface and groundwater
Research confidence: high
Source waters
- Englishman River (Arrowsmith Dam storage)
- Deep groundwater wells (Springwood and Railway well fields)
Treatment plants
Englishman River Water Treatment Plant (Herring Gull Way)
ERWS joint venture (Parksville 74% / RDN 26%): sand separators, coagulation, UF membranes, UV, chlorination. Capacity 16 ML/d.
Municipal groundwater wells
Sodium hypochlorite disinfection only before blending in city reservoirs.
Distribution
Four reservoirs (Top Bridge and Springwood); also supplies RDN Nanoose Bay Peninsula Water Service Area.
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)83 mg/L
pH (city vs British Columbia avg)8.1
Lead (city vs British Columbia avg)0.3 μg/L
Fluoride (city vs British Columbia avg)0.6 mg/L
Provincial average: hardness 142 mg/L · pH 7.6 · lead 0.4 μg/L · fluoride 0.6 mg/L
Full parameters
| Parameter | Reading | Health Canada guideline | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 83 mg/L | No health limit (aesthetic) | Compliant |
| pH | 8.1 | 6.5–8.5 | Compliant |
| Lead | 0.3 μg/L | ≤ 5 μg/L | Compliant |
| Fluoride | 0.6 mg/L | ≤ 1.5 mg/L | Compliant |
| Chlorine (free) | 0.8 mg/L | ≤ 4 mg/L | Compliant |
| Turbidity | 0.4 NTU | ≤ 1 NTU (typical target) | Compliant |
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OpenStats picks for Parksville — everyday tap water
Parksville's 83 mg/L supply is relatively soft — filtration is mostly about chlorine taste. A certified pitcher or compact under-sink unit is enough for most homes.
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