Drummondville drinking water path

Source

Saint-François River Surface water

raw water

Intake

Raw water intake pump station

to plant

Treatment

Usine de traitement de l’eau de Drummondv… municipal treatment

finished

Mains

Distribution City UTE staff also maintain sector reservoirs/boosters (industrial park, Grantham, Saint-Nicéphore) on the greater Drummondville network.

drinking water

Tap

Household tap Drummondville

Source & supply
Saint-François River
City UTE staff also maintain sector reservoirs/boosters (industrial park, Grantham, Saint-Nicéphore) on the greater Drummondville network.
Drummondville rebuilt its century-old river plant in place—keeping the Saint-François intake while replacing the 1925-era process train.
Treatment
Usine de traitement de l’eau de Drummondville (nouvelle UTE)
Replacement plant (in service 2025) near the Saint-François River intake used by the historic 1920s works. Design capacity near 75,000 m³/day with expansion headroom toward 90,000 m³/day. Serves Drummondville plus Saint-Majorique, Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, and Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover.
At the tap
Hardness 173 mg/L (Hard)
Grade B (Good)
pH 7.6 · lead 0.5 μg/L
ECCC / municipal open data (seed)