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Wetaskiwin tap water: Grade C, hardness 112 mg/L
By OpenStats · Built from official Canadian sources
Regional estimateC
Water quality grade
Fair
Graded against Health Canada drinking water guidelines
Lead within guidelinepH in range
Hardness vs provincial average112 mg/L · prov. avg 178 mg/L
Lead vs provincial average0 μg/L · prov. avg 0.3 μg/L
Hardness
112 mg/L
Lead
0 μg/L
≤ 5 μg/L
pH
7
6.5–8.5 range
Hardness
112 mg/L
Moderate
Lead
0 μg/L
Max: 5 μg/L
pH
7
6.5–8.5
Chlorine
0.5 mg/L
Max: 4 mg/L
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Reading this page
Wetaskiwin's drinking water earns Grade C (Fair). Hardness is 112 mg/L (moderate), and pH is 7 against Health Canada's 6.5–8.5 guideline.
Lead at 0 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 Wetaskiwin 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
- Coal Lake
Treatment plants
Wetaskiwin Water Treatment Plant (Peace Hills Utilities)
Upgraded with dissolved air flotation (DAF), GAC filters, and UV to handle algae, organics, iron, and taste/odour from hyper-eutrophic Coal Lake.
Distribution
City / Peace Hills Utilities operate plant and distribution; Coal Lake also used for Battle River flow augmentation.
Health parameters meet Health Canada limits; turbidity above the 1 NTU typical target.
One or more parameters exceed a Health Canada drinking water guideline or turbidity target.
Figure 1 · Supply chain
From watershed to tap
Compared to provincial average
Alberta · 51 cities in sample
Hardness (city vs Alberta avg)112 mg/L
pH (city vs Alberta avg)7
Lead (city vs Alberta avg)0 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
| Parameter | Reading | Health Canada guideline | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 112 mg/L | No health limit (aesthetic) | Compliant |
| pH | 7 | 6.5–8.5 | Compliant |
| Lead | 0 μg/L | ≤ 5 μg/L | Compliant |
| Fluoride | 0.7 mg/L | ≤ 1.5 mg/L | Compliant |
| Chlorine (free) | 0.5 mg/L | ≤ 4 mg/L | Compliant |
| Turbidity | 3.3 NTU | ≤ 1 NTU (typical target) | Exceeds guideline |
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OpenStats picks for Wetaskiwin — everyday tap water
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