Hockaday Water Hardness & Quality Report (2026)

Hockaday's drinking water is managed by the City of Coquitlam or City of Port Coquitlam, purchasing bulk supply from Metro Vancouver (GVWD) — sourced from the Coquitlam Lake watershed in the Coast Mountains. Water is treated at Metro Vancouver facilities using ozonation, biofiltration, UV disinfection, and chloramination, fully meeting the Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality (GCDWQ). Hardness in the Hockaday distribution sub-zone is 33 mg/L (1.9 gpg) — classified as soft by Health Canada, consistent with the Metro Vancouver inner Coquitlam soft supply.

Hockaday (a neighbourhood in east Metro Vancouver in the Coquitlam or Port Coquitlam area — on the north slopes of the Pitt River Meadows corridor near the Port Coquitlam-Coquitlam boundary, a residential community of detached homes and acreage properties in the east Metro Vancouver foothills, at the agricultural-suburban fringe of the Pitt Meadows area with views across the Pitt River floodplain and the Burke Mountain corridor, one of the outer east Metro Vancouver residential communities at the edge of the agricultural land reserve and the Coquitlam River watershed) shows 33 mg/L — consistent with the Metro Vancouver Coquitlam Lake soft supply at the outer east Metro Vancouver distribution zone, adjacent to Brow of the Hill (32 mg/L from this batch) in the same Metro Vancouver soft supply ring. The Coquitlam Lake reservoir supply from the Coast Mountains delivers near-source soft water throughout this east Metro Vancouver distribution zone.

With 33 mg/L, Hockaday homes are essentially scale-free — occasional kettle cleaning every three months is adequate. Hot water tanks have an excellent operational lifespan. Health Canada lead precautionary guidance applies to pre-1975 properties in the established Hockaday neighbourhood.