Brandon drinking water path

Source

Assiniboine River Surface water

raw water

Intake

Raw water intake pump station

to plant

Treatment

Brandon Water Treatment Facility chlorination · UV · filtration

finished

Mains

Distribution Treated water is pumped from the facility into the municipal distribution system serving residential, institutional, industrial, and commercial customers under a provincial Office of Drinking Water operating licence.

drinking water

Tap

Household tap Brandon

Source & supply
Assiniboine River
Treated water is pumped from the facility into the municipal distribution system serving residential, institutional, industrial, and commercial customers under a provincial Office of Drinking Water operating licence.
Brandon has drawn Assiniboine River water since 1893; river flow at the city is strongly influenced by the Shellmouth Dam upstream near Russell.
Treatment
Brandon Water Treatment Facility
City-owned plant at 108 26th Street drawing Assiniboine River water through riverside intake wells. Conventional multi-barrier process (solid-contact clarification, filtration, chlorination, UV). Major membrane-building expansion planned to operate in parallel with the conventional plant by about 2029.
Treatment on record: chlorination · UV · filtration
At the tap
Hardness 116 mg/L (Moderate)
Grade C (Fair)
pH 6.8999999999999995 · lead 0.4 μg/L
ECCC / municipal open data (seed)