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Regional estimateWater quality grade
Excellent
Graded against Health Canada drinking water guidelines
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Strathmore's drinking water earns Grade A (Excellent). Hardness is 165 mg/L (hard), and pH is 6.8 against Health Canada's 6.5–8.5 guideline.
Lead at 0.5 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
How Strathmore 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
City of Calgary plants (Bearspaw and Glenmore) — wholesale via East Calgary Regional Waterline
No local raw-water plant; EPCOR operates Strathmore distribution under contract.
East Calgary Regional Waterline delivers Calgary-treated water to Wildflower and Brentwood reservoirs; town distribution beyond.
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
Alberta · 51 cities in sample
Provincial average: hardness 178 mg/L · pH 7.5 · lead 0.3 μg/L · fluoride 0.6 mg/L
| Parameter | Reading | Health Canada guideline | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 165 mg/L | No health limit (aesthetic) | Compliant |
| pH | 6.8 | 6.5–8.5 | Compliant |
| Lead | 0.5 μg/L | ≤ 5 μg/L | Compliant |
| Fluoride | 0.5 mg/L | ≤ 1.5 mg/L | Compliant |
| Chlorine (free) | 1 mg/L | ≤ 4 mg/L | Compliant |
| Turbidity | 0.6 NTU | ≤ 1 NTU (typical target) | Compliant |
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