Kenora drinking water path

• Source & supply

  Lake of the Woods

  SCADA-monitored plant supplies city distribution and water-haulage customers.

  Kenora takes Lake of the Woods—the same lake that straddles the Ontario–Manitoba–Minnesota border—as its sole municipal raw source.

• Treatment

  Kenora Water Treatment Plant (7th Street South)

  Conventional filtration: alum coagulation, upflow pulsator clarification, dual-media anthracite/sand, fluoridation, NaOH pH, chloramination. Rated ~25 ML/d.

  Treatment on record: chlorination · filtration

• At the tap

  Hardness 138 mg/L (Hard)

  Grade B (Good)

  pH 7.1 · lead 0.2 μg/L

  ECCC / municipal open data (seed)