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Direct municipal dataWater quality grade
Excellent
Graded against Health Canada drinking water guidelines
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Whitehorse water hardness is 149 mg/L, from the city's published water quality reporting.
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 Whitehorse 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.
Groundwater
Research confidence: high
Selkirk Pumphouse
Central Riverdale facility where production-well water receives sodium hypochlorite disinfection before distribution; currently the sole municipal treatment step.
Municipal piped system is supplied from roughly seven Riverdale Aquifer production wells. Water is chlorinated at Selkirk Pumphouse and monitored continuously there plus weekly at many distribution sites. Some residents use private wells or trucked tank water outside the piped system.
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
Yukon · 1 cities in sample
Provincial average: hardness 149 mg/L · pH 7.7 · lead 0.4 μg/L · fluoride 0.5 mg/L
| Parameter | Reading | Health Canada guideline | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 149 mg/L | No health limit (aesthetic) | Compliant |
| pH | 7.7 | 6.5–8.5 | Compliant |
| Lead | 0.4 μg/L | ≤ 5 μg/L | Compliant |
| Fluoride | 0.5 mg/L | ≤ 1.5 mg/L | Compliant |
| Chlorine (free) | 0.9 mg/L | ≤ 4 mg/L | Compliant |
| Turbidity | 0.5 NTU | ≤ 1 NTU (typical target) | Compliant |
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