Wetaskiwin drinking water path

Source

Coal Lake Surface water

to plant

Treatment

Wetaskiwin WTP (Peace Hills Utilities) UV · filtration

finished

Mains

Distribution City / Peace Hills Utilities operate plant and distribution; Coal Lake also used for Battle River flow augmentation.

drinking water

Tap

Household tap Wetaskiwin

Source & supply
Coal Lake
City / Peace Hills Utilities operate plant and distribution; Coal Lake also used for Battle River flow augmentation.
Coal Lake is hyper-eutrophic with historical microcystin and zooplankton challenges that drove the DAF/GAC/UV upgrade.
Treatment
Wetaskiwin Water Treatment Plant (Peace Hills Utilities)
Upgraded with dissolved air flotation (DAF), GAC filters, and UV to handle algae, organics, iron, and taste/odour from hyper-eutrophic Coal Lake.
Treatment on record: UV · filtration
At the tap
Hardness 112 mg/L (Moderate)
Grade C (Fair)
pH 7 · lead 0 μg/L
ECCC / municipal open data (seed)