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Sylvan Lake tap water: Grade B, hardness 177 mg/L

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Regional estimate
B

Water quality grade

Good

Graded against Health Canada drinking water guidelines

Lead within guidelinepH in range
Hardness vs provincial average177 mg/L · prov. avg 178 mg/L
Lead vs provincial average0.1 μg/L · prov. avg 0.3 μg/L
Hardness
177 mg/L
Lead
0.1 μg/L
≤ 5 μg/L
pH
7
6.5–8.5 range
Hardness
177 mg/L
Hard
Lead
0.1 μg/L
Max: 5 μg/L
pH
7
6.5–8.5
Chlorine
0.6 mg/L
Max: 4 mg/L
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Sylvan Lake's drinking water earns Grade B (Good). Hardness is 177 mg/L (hard), and pH is 7 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 0.7 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 Sylvan Lake 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

Groundwater

Research confidence: high

Source waters

  • Paskapoo Formation aquifers (municipal wells; not Sylvan Lake itself)

Treatment plants

  • North and South water reservoirs (chlorination facilities)

    Chlorination only; town states no other purification additives needed for well water. About 7–8 active wells feed two reservoirs.

Distribution

Wells on east shore (Red Deer County) and southern town; wastewater is piped to Red Deer regional plant, separate from potable supply.

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

Alberta · 51 cities in sample

Hardness (city vs Alberta avg)177 mg/L
pH (city vs Alberta avg)7
Lead (city vs Alberta avg)0.1 μg/L
Fluoride (city vs Alberta avg)0.7 mg/L

Provincial average: hardness 178 mg/L · pH 7.5 · lead 0.3 μg/L · fluoride 0.6 mg/L

Full parameters

ParameterReadingHealth Canada guidelineStatus
Hardness177 mg/LNo health limit (aesthetic)Compliant
pH76.5–8.5Compliant
Lead0.1 μg/L≤ 5 μg/LCompliant
Fluoride0.7 mg/L≤ 1.5 mg/LCompliant
Chlorine (free)0.6 mg/L≤ 4 mg/LCompliant
Turbidity1.8 NTU≤ 1 NTU (typical target)Exceeds guideline
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Source · ECCC / municipal open data (seed). Last updated 2026-09-01. Refreshed on the site's automated schedule.