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Winkler tap water: Grade B, hardness 176 mg/L
By OpenStats · Built from official Canadian sources
Regional estimateB
Water quality grade
Good
Graded against Health Canada drinking water guidelines
Lead within guidelinepH in range
Hardness vs provincial average176 mg/L · prov. avg 163 mg/L
Lead vs provincial average0 μg/L · prov. avg 0.4 μg/L
Hardness
176 mg/L
Lead
0 μg/L
≤ 5 μg/L
pH
6.9
6.5–8.5 range
Hardness
176 mg/L
Hard
Lead
0 μg/L
Max: 5 μg/L
pH
6.9
6.5–8.5
Chlorine
0.5 mg/L
Max: 4 mg/L
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Winkler's drinking water earns Grade B (Good). Hardness is 176 mg/L (hard), and pH is 6.9 against Health Canada's 6.5–8.5 guideline.
Lead at 0 μg/L is below the 5 μg/L maximum, and fluoride is 0.6 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
Supply and treatment
How Winkler 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
- Winkler Aquifer (fresh and brackish zones; ~10 wells)
Treatment plants
Winkler Water Treatment Plant
Greensand filtration plus reverse osmosis for brackish fraction (~53% of withdrawal). Expansion targeting >2× capacity and higher RO recovery. Peak demand sometimes supplemented by Pembina Valley Water Coop purchases.
Distribution
City-owned plant and distribution; aquifer runs NW–SE from Shannon Creek recharge toward Rhineland.
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
Manitoba · 13 cities in sample
Hardness (city vs Manitoba avg)176 mg/L
pH (city vs Manitoba avg)6.9
Lead (city vs Manitoba avg)0 μg/L
Fluoride (city vs Manitoba avg)0.6 mg/L
Provincial average: hardness 163 mg/L · pH 7.5 · lead 0.4 μg/L · fluoride 0.6 mg/L
Full parameters
| Parameter | Reading | Health Canada guideline | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 176 mg/L | No health limit (aesthetic) | Compliant |
| pH | 6.9 | 6.5–8.5 | Compliant |
| Lead | 0 μg/L | ≤ 5 μg/L | Compliant |
| Fluoride | 0.6 mg/L | ≤ 1.5 mg/L | Compliant |
| Chlorine (free) | 0.5 mg/L | ≤ 4 mg/L | Compliant |
| Turbidity | 1.7 NTU | ≤ 1 NTU (typical target) | Exceeds guideline |
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