Perth Water Quality · Buckland Hill
Water quality in Buckland Hill
Your local water hardness and the full breakdown of 16 parameters, sourced from Water Corporation's 2024–25 report.
Updated with Water Corporation 2024-25 data.
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Covers: Buckland Hill, Claremont, Cottesloe, Dalkeith, East Fremantle, Karrakatta, Mosman Park, Mount Claremont, Nedlands, North Fremantle, Peppermint Grove, Swanbourne
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Buckland Hill supply zone
Moderately hard
63mg/L total hardness (range 50–73)
Water in Buckland Hill is moderately hard. You may notice some scale over time on kettles and shower screens, but it’s manageable. Carbon filtration improves taste; softening is optional.
Other figures worth knowing
Chlorine by-products (THMs)0.072mg/L
pH7.82
Dissolved solids359mg/L
Sodium86mg/L
Perth's water is disinfected with free chlorine at roughly 0.4–1.0 mg/L network-wide. The figure above is trihalomethanes (THMs) — by-products of chlorination that a catalytic carbon filter reduces. In Buckland Hill they run at about 29% of the safety guideline.
What this means for your home
Water in Buckland Hill is moderately hard. You may notice some scale over time on kettles and shower screens, but it’s manageable. Carbon filtration improves taste; softening is optional.
✓Our honest take: A carbon filter improves taste and chlorine; scale prevention is a nice-to-have, not essential.
Full water quality breakdown — Buckland Hill
Scale & hardness
Total hardness6350–73 mg/L as CaCO3
Total dissolved solids359200–458 mg/L
Alkalinity6437–84 mg/L as CaCO3
Silica5.82–9 mg/L
General chemistry
pH7.827.69–7.92 pH units
Sodium8644–115 mg/L
Chloride14980–185 mg/L
Sulphate137–17 mg/L
Aesthetic (taste, colour, staining)
Iron0.0460.03–0.06 mg/L
Manganese0.0070.004–0.01 mg/L
Aluminium0.0090.008–0.012 mg/L
True colour11–1 HU
Turbidity0.20.2–0.3 NTU
Health-related
Fluoride0.80.7–0.9 mg/L
Nitrate0.4?–0.4 mg/L
Trihalomethanes (THMs)0.0720.038–0.11 mg/L
About this supply area: Water Corporation reports quality by supply locality rather than individual suburb, so the suburbs listed at the top of this page all share the Buckland Hill figures. Your exact property may vary slightly. Water Corporation doesn’t publish supply boundaries street-by-street, so matching suburbs to localities involves some interpretation — homes near a boundary may actually be served by a neighbouring locality, and figures there can differ slightly.
Source: Water Corporation Drinking Water Quality Annual Report 2024–25, Perth Region (aesthetic & health tables). Figures are locality means with min–max range. Verified July 2026. Buckland Hill met all health-related safety requirements in 2024–25. See all Perth suburbs →