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Portage la Prairie tap water: Grade B, hardness 137 mg/L
By OpenStats · Built from official Canadian sources
Regional estimateB
Water quality grade
Good
Graded against Health Canada drinking water guidelines
Lead within guidelinepH in range
Hardness vs provincial average137 mg/L · prov. avg 163 mg/L
Lead vs provincial average0.1 μg/L · prov. avg 0.4 μg/L
Hardness
137 mg/L
Lead
0.1 μg/L
≤ 5 μg/L
pH
8
6.5–8.5 range
Hardness
137 mg/L
Hard
Lead
0.1 μg/L
Max: 5 μg/L
pH
8
6.5–8.5
Chlorine
0.6 mg/L
Max: 4 mg/L
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Reading this page
Portage la Prairie's drinking water earns Grade B (Good). Hardness is 137 mg/L (hard), and pH is 8 against Health Canada's 6.5–8.5 guideline.
Lead at 0.1 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 Portage la Prairie 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: high
Source waters
- Assiniboine River
Treatment plants
Portage la Prairie Water Treatment Plant (Yellowquill Trail)
Conventional lime-softening plant with Actiflo pre-clarification, ozonation, dual-media / biologically activated filtration, GAC polishing, CO₂ pH adjustment, chlorine. Design ~34 ML/d net; expansion planned.
Distribution
Serves ~16,000 residents plus Yellowhead and Cartier regional co-ops and major food processors (McCain, Simplot, Roquette). McKay Reservoir and pump station in system.
Health parameters meet Health Canada limits; turbidity above the 1 NTU typical target.
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)137 mg/L
pH (city vs Manitoba avg)8
Lead (city vs Manitoba avg)0.1 μg/L
Fluoride (city vs Manitoba avg)0.5 mg/L
Provincial average: hardness 163 mg/L · pH 7.5 · lead 0.4 μg/L · fluoride 0.6 mg/L
Full parameters
| Parameter | Reading | Health Canada guideline | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 137 mg/L | No health limit (aesthetic) | Compliant |
| pH | 8 | 6.5–8.5 | Compliant |
| Lead | 0.1 μg/L | ≤ 5 μg/L | Compliant |
| Fluoride | 0.5 mg/L | ≤ 1.5 mg/L | Compliant |
| Chlorine (free) | 0.6 mg/L | ≤ 4 mg/L | Compliant |
| Turbidity | 1.8 NTU | ≤ 1 NTU (typical target) | Exceeds guideline |
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OpenStats picks for Portage la Prairie — moderate hardness
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