Perth Water Quality · Melville
Water quality in Melville
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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Melville supply zone
Soft water
54mg/L total hardness (range 46–63)
Water in Melville is naturally soft. You likely don’t need softening — scale build-up should be minimal. A sediment and carbon filter still improves taste and reduces chlorine.
Other figures worth knowing
Chlorine by-products (THMs)0.061mg/L
pH8.02
Dissolved solids378mg/L
Sodium100mg/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 Melville they run at about 24% of the safety guideline.
What this means for your home
Water in Melville is naturally soft. You likely don’t need softening — scale build-up should be minimal. A sediment and carbon filter still improves taste and reduces chlorine.
✓Our honest take: You probably don’t need a softener. A 3-stage filter still helps with chlorine taste and sediment.
Full water quality breakdown — Melville
Scale & hardness
Total hardness5446–63 mg/L as CaCO3
Total dissolved solids378193–470 mg/L
Alkalinity5939–80 mg/L as CaCO3
Silica4.71.8–6.2 mg/L
General chemistry
pH8.027.83–8.14 pH units
Sodium10043–125 mg/L
Chloride16475–205 mg/L
Sulphate115–14 mg/L
Aesthetic (taste, colour, staining)
Iron0.0320.02–0.045 mg/L
Manganese0.0040.002–0.005 mg/L
Aluminium0.0120.01–0.016 mg/L
True colour11–1 HU
Turbidity0.10.1–0.2 NTU
Health-related
Fluoride0.780.65–0.9 mg/L
Trihalomethanes (THMs)0.0610.035–0.088 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 Melville 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. Melville met all health-related safety requirements in 2024–25. See all Perth suburbs →