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Regional estimateWater quality grade
Good
Graded against Health Canada drinking water guidelines
Sept-Îles at 209 mg/L is hard enough to scale kettles, but most residents solve taste and lead at the tap first. Carbon filtration + test strips; whole-house softener only if repeat hardness readings justify it.
OpenStats pick for Sept-Îles’s 209 mg/L hardness — drinking-water carbon first; pitchers do not soften
Higher-flow kitchen carbon for Sept-Îles without dedicating a softener closet
Sept-Îles at 209 mg/L — measure before jumping to a whole-house softener
Consider whole-house softening only if strips confirm 209 mg/L+ is wrecking appliances
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Sept-Îles's drinking water earns Grade B (Good). Hardness is 209 mg/L (very hard), and pH is 7.2 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 0.6 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
How Sept-Îles 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.
Surface water
Research confidence: high
Centrale de traitement d'eau Sept-Îles
Filtration, corrosion control, chlorination historically; chloramine disinfection commissioned Oct 2025 to cut THMs from high-organic lake water.
Lake ~10–12 km NW of urban core; also smaller satellite systems (Moisie, Gallix, Clarke City rechlorination).
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
Quebec · 34 cities in sample
Provincial average: hardness 183 mg/L · pH 7.5 · lead 0.3 μg/L · fluoride 0.6 mg/L
| Parameter | Reading | Health Canada guideline | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 209 mg/L | No health limit (aesthetic) | Compliant |
| pH | 7.2 | 6.5–8.5 | Compliant |
| Lead | 0.1 μg/L | ≤ 5 μg/L | Compliant |
| Fluoride | 0.6 mg/L | ≤ 1.5 mg/L | Compliant |
| Chlorine (free) | 0.6 mg/L | ≤ 4 mg/L | Compliant |
| Turbidity | 1 NTU | ≤ 1 NTU (typical target) | Compliant |
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Sept-Îles at 209 mg/L is hard enough to scale kettles, but most residents solve taste and lead at the tap first. Carbon filtration + test strips; whole-house softener only if repeat hardness readings justify it.
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