Brooks drinking water path

Source

Bow River Surface water · +1 sources

raw water

Intake

Raw water intake pump station

to plant

Treatment

Brooks / Newell Regional WTP chlorination · filtration

finished

Mains

Distribution Newell Regional Services Corp. supplies Brooks and County of Newell hamlets plus transmission to Rosemary, Duchess, and Bassano.

drinking water

Tap

Household tap Brooks

Source & supply
Bow River
Lake Newell (via Eastern Irrigation District canals from Bassano Dam)
Newell Regional Services Corp. supplies Brooks and County of Newell hamlets plus transmission to Rosemary, Duchess, and Bassano.
Brooks drinking water is Bow River water stored in Lake Newell through Eastern Irrigation District canals before regional membrane treatment—an irrigation reservoir doubled as a municipal source.
Treatment
Brooks / Newell Regional Water Treatment Plant
NRSC membrane filtration plant; chlorine then ammonia for chloramine residual. Raw water pumped about 7 km from Lake Newell pumphouse.
Treatment on record: chlorination · filtration
At the tap
Hardness 234 mg/L (Very hard)
Grade C (Fair)
pH 8.2 · lead 0.2 μg/L
ECCC / municipal open data (seed)