Kawartha Lakes drinking water path

• Source & supply

  Scugog River (Lindsay DWS — primary urban system)

  Multiple other CKL systems: lakes/rivers (Bobcaygeon, Fenelon Falls, etc.) and fifteen groundwater systems

  City operates 21 drinking-water systems. Lindsay is the large surface plant; profile centres on Lindsay as the namesake urban core.

  Kawartha Lakes is a federation of systems—Lindsay drinks Scugog River while many villages drink wells or other Kawartha lakes.

• Treatment

  Lindsay Water Treatment Plant

  Class IV: ballasted flocculation, sedimentation, dual-media GAC/sand filters, sodium hypochlorite, CO₂ and NaOH pH adjustment. Serves Lindsay and Oakwood.

  Treatment on record: chlorination · filtration

• At the tap

  Hardness 214 mg/L (Very hard)

  Grade B (Good)

  pH 8.2 · lead 0.6 μg/L

  ECCC / municipal open data (seed)