Charlottetown drinking water path

Source

Winter River watershed groundwater (municipal wellfields) Groundwater

raw water

Intake

Municipal wells groundwater pumping

to plant

Treatment

Charlottetown Water Utility disinfection … filtration

finished

Mains

Distribution Charlottetown Water and Sewer Utility extracts from about thirteen wells across municipal wellfields in the Winter River watershed (city materials variously describe three or four wellfields) and distributes citywide. PEI as a province is entirely dependent on groundwater for drinking water.

drinking water

Tap

Household tap Charlottetown

Source & supply
Winter River watershed groundwater (municipal wellfields)
Charlottetown Water and Sewer Utility extracts from about thirteen wells across municipal wellfields in the Winter River watershed (city materials variously describe three or four wellfields) and distributes citywide. PEI as a province is entirely dependent on groundwater for drinking water.
Fluoridation continues because of a 1967 plebiscite. Utility emphasizes wellfield protection and land-use risk management north of the city where wells sit amid farmland.
Treatment
Charlottetown Water Utility disinfection / fluoridation facilities
No conventional surface-water filtration plant; groundwater from multiple wellfields is disinfected and fluoridated before distribution.
Treatment on record: filtration
At the tap
Hardness 260 mg/L (Very hard)
Grade B (Good)
pH 7.8 · lead 0.4 μg/L
ECCC / municipal open data (seed)