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Pickering tap water: Grade A, hardness 125 mg/L

By OpenStats · Built from official Canadian sources

Direct municipal data
A

Water quality grade

Excellent

Graded against Health Canada drinking water guidelines

Lead within guidelinepH in range
Hardness vs provincial average125 mg/L · prov. avg 178 mg/L
Lead vs provincial average0 μg/L · prov. avg 0.4 μg/L
Hardness
125 mg/L
Lead
0 μg/L
≤ 5 μg/L
pH
7.3
6.5–8.5 range
Hardness
125 mg/L
Hard
Lead
0 μg/L
Max: 5 μg/L
pH
7.3
6.5–8.5
Chlorine
0.5 mg/L
Max: 4 mg/L
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Reading this page

Pickering water hardness is 125 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 Pickering 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: medium

Source waters

  • mixed

Treatment plants

  • Pickering 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

Ontario · 123 cities in sample

Hardness (city vs Ontario avg)125 mg/L
pH (city vs Ontario avg)7.3
Lead (city vs Ontario avg)0 μg/L
Fluoride (city vs Ontario avg)0.7 mg/L

Provincial average: hardness 178 mg/L · pH 7.5 · lead 0.4 μg/L · fluoride 0.6 mg/L

Full parameters

ParameterReadingHealth Canada guidelineStatus
Hardness125 mg/LNo health limit (aesthetic)Compliant
pH7.36.5–8.5Compliant
Lead0 μg/L≤ 5 μg/LCompliant
Fluoride0.7 mg/L≤ 1.5 mg/LCompliant
Chlorine (free)0.5 mg/L≤ 4 mg/LCompliant
Turbidity0.1 NTU≤ 1 NTU (typical target)Compliant
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Source · Region of Durham About Water (hardness table). Last updated 2026-10-07. Refreshed on the site's automated schedule.