South Clearbrook Water Hardness & Quality Report (2026)

South Clearbrook's drinking water is managed by the City of Abbotsford, drawing from a local Cascade foothills mountain reservoir — South Clearbrook is a neighbourhood in south Abbotsford near the US-Canada border, in the Clearbrook community of southwest Abbotsford along the South Fraser Way-Clearbrook Road corridor, a mixed residential and commercial community in south Abbotsford adjacent to the historic Clearbrook townsite (named after the clear mountain creek that originally flowed through the area), home to a large Mennonite-Canadian community heritage in the southwest Abbotsford settlement corridor. Water undergoes coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, UV disinfection, and chloramination, fully meeting the Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality (GCDWQ). Hardness measures 22.5 mg/L (1.3 gpg) — classified as soft by Health Canada, with TDS of only 36.2 mg/L — consistent with the Abbotsford south communities' ultra-soft Cascade mountain supply.

South Clearbrook draws from a local Cascade foothills reservoir — the Abbotsford south communities draw from high-mountain watershed sources in the Cascade Range-Coast Mountains transition above Abbotsford, draining Jurassic and Cretaceous plutonic granodiorite with essentially zero carbonate content. At 22.5 mg/L, South Clearbrook is identical to Fairfield Island Abbotsford (22.5 mg/L from batch 34) and virtually identical to Whatcom (23.5 mg/L from this batch) in the same Abbotsford Cascade foothills supply zone, confirming the consistently ultra-soft supply throughout the Abbotsford south and southeast communities.

With 22.5 mg/L, South Clearbrook homes are essentially scale-free — occasional kettle cleaning every three months is adequate. Hot water tanks have an excellent operational lifespan. Health Canada lead and copper precautionary guidance applies, as the very soft water increases corrosive potential. The City of Abbotsford provides water quality information at abbotsford.ca.