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Water Quality
Providing clean drinking water is of paramount importance for the health of our residents. To help ensure your water is of the highest quality even as water comes into your home and through your faucets, plumbing and water heaters have many things along the way that can impact water quality.
View the 2022 Annual Water Report or visit the Resource Library for further information on water quality.
Water Quality Dashboard (Water Treatment Plant - Metal Results)
Launch the Water Quality Dashboard or click the image below.
The Drinking Water Protection Act (DWPA) prescribes regulations that limit the levels of certain contaminants in the water provided by public water systems. The City of White Rock’s water supply is tested for many different microbiological indicators, organics and trace metal parameters. The City’s Water Works Department tests for the following parameters according to the Health Canada’s Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality Summary Table (PDF):
- In-house
- Conductivity
- Free chlorine
- NTU (turbidity)
- pH
- Temperature
- Total chlorine
All the other parameters are tested by an external contractor as set by the Drinking Water Protection Act:
- Metals
- Arsenic
- Copper
- Iron
- Lead
- Manganese
- Microbiological
- Escherichia Coli (e. coli)
- Total Coliforms
- Organics
- Haloacetic Acids (HAAs)
- Trihalomethanes (THMs)
2023 City of White Rock Water Quality Test Results
2022 City of White Rock Water Quality Test Results
2021 City of White Rock Water Quality Test Results
2020 City of White Rock Water Quality Test Results
2019 City of White Rock Water Quality Test Results
January to December
- Water Treatment Plant Metal Results 2019 (PDF)
- Distribution Metal Results 2019 (PDF)
- Metal Water Testing Results 2019 (PDF)
- Microbiological Water Testing Results 2019
- Non-Routine Water Testing Results 2019 (PDF)
- In House Water Testing Results 2019 (PDF)
- THM & HAA Results - 3rd Quarter Results - 2019 (PDF)
2018 City of White Rock Water Quality Test Results
January to December
- Annual Water Testing Results 2018 (PDF)
- In-House Water Testing Results 2018 (PDF)
- Metal Water Testing Results 2018 (PDF)
- Microbiological Water Testing Results 2018 (PDF)
- Non-Routine Water Testing Results 2018 (PDF)
- Oxford and Merklin Chlorination Metal Results 2018 (PDF)
- THM and HAA - 2018 Fourth Quarter Data (PDF)
Pesticide Testing Results
2017 City of White Rock Water Quality Test Results
January to December
- Annual Water Testing Results 2017 (PDF)
- In-House Water Testing Results 2017 (PDF)
- Metal Water Testing Results 2017 (PDF)
- Microbiological Water Testing Results 2017 (PDF)
- Non-Routine Water Testing Results 2017 (PDF)
- Oxford and Merklin Chlorination Metal Results 2017 (PDF)
- THM and HAA - 2017 Fourth Quarter Data (PDF)
2016 City of White Rock Water Quality Test Results
January to December
- Annual Water Testing Results 2016 (PDF)
- In-House Water Testing Results 2016 (PDF)
- Metal Water Testing Results 2016 (PDF)
- Microbiological Water Testing Results 2016 (PDF)
- Non-Routine Water Testing Results 2016 (PDF)
- Oxford and Merklin Chlorination Metal Results 2016 (PDF)
- THM and HAA Water Testing Results 2016 (PDF)