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Drinking Water Quality and Supply

Plympton-Wyoming 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 average244 mg/L · prov. avg 180 mg/L
Lead vs provincial average0.4 μg/L · prov. avg 0.4 μg/L
Hardness
244 mg/L
Lead
0.4 μg/L
≤ 5 μg/L
pH
7.7
6.5–8.5 range
Hardness
244 mg/L
Very hard
Lead
0.4 μg/L
Max: 5 μg/L
pH
7.7
6.5–8.5
Chlorine
0.9 mg/L
Max: 4 mg/L

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Plympton-Wyoming's drinking water earns Grade B (Good). Hardness is 244 mg/L (very hard), and pH is 7.7 against Health Canada's 6.5–8.5 guideline.

Lead at 0.4 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 Plympton-Wyoming 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

  • Plympton-Wyoming 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.

Health parameters compliant; minor aesthetic factors such as hardness or pH near guideline edges.

Figure 1 · Supply chain

From watershed to tap

Compared to provincial average

Ontario · 123 cities in sample

Hardness (city vs Ontario avg)244 mg/L
pH (city vs Ontario avg)7.7
Lead (city vs Ontario avg)0.4 μg/L
Fluoride (city vs Ontario avg)0.5 mg/L

Provincial average: hardness 180 mg/L · pH 7.5 · lead 0.4 μg/L · fluoride 0.6 mg/L

Full parameters

ParameterReadingHealth Canada guidelineStatus
Hardness244 mg/LNo health limit (aesthetic)Compliant
pH7.76.5–8.5Compliant
Lead0.4 μg/L≤ 5 μg/LCompliant
Fluoride0.5 mg/L≤ 1.5 mg/LCompliant
Chlorine (free)0.9 mg/L≤ 4 mg/LCompliant
Turbidity0.5 NTU≤ 1 NTU (typical target)Compliant
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