PFAS drinking water rules in Newfoundland and Labrador, the agency and citation behind them, how they compare to the Health Canada Objective of 30 nanograms per litre for the sum of 25 PFAS compounds, and the federal sites in Newfoundland and Labrador where the Government of Canada has recorded PFAS as a contaminant of concern.
This is the Canada view of the North American PFAS dataset. The complete dataset, including all 3,452 US systems and 97 Canadian sites, lives on the main PFAS contamination map.
Guidance value only
NL adopts the HC Objective; 5 Wing Goose Bay remains an active federal PFAS response area. No enforceable jurisdiction-specific PFAS drinking water number was located in a primary source at the last review.
Compound
Limit (ng/L)
Note
Sum of 25 PFAS
30
Health Canada Objective (2024)
Health Canada — Objective for PFAS in Drinking Water (2024)
Health Canada Objective for PFAS in Drinking Water (2024)
Last reviewed 2026-08-13. Verify against the agency source before making a compliance or remediation decision.
From the Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory, ordered by federal priority classification. The inventory records which contaminants are present at each federal site, not the measured concentrations, so these entries show where PFAS has been identified rather than how much was found.
Custodian departments in Newfoundland and Labrador: MOT (8), National Defence (2).
Site
Municipality
Custodian
Classification
Status
Media affected
Disposal Site 2 and Fire Training Area
St. John's
MOT
High Priority for Action
Active
Groundwater
Happy Valley-Goose Bay
National Defence
High Priority for Action
Active
Groundwater, Surface soil
North Side Property - All Areas
Happy Valley-Goose Bay
MOT
High Priority for Action
Active
Groundwater
Gander
MOT
Medium Priority for Action
Active
Groundwater, Not Available, Soil
Former Fire Training Area (PFAS)
Gander
MOT
Medium Priority for Action
Active
Groundwater, Soil
Former Fire Training Area (PFAS)
Wabush
MOT
Medium Priority for Action
Active
Groundwater, Soil
Stephenville
MOT
Medium Priority for Action
Active
Groundwater, Not Available
Waste Material and Barrel Site
Gander
MOT
Medium Priority for Action
Active
Groundwater, Not Available
St. Anthony Airport Former Fire Training Area
Division No. 9, Subd. D
MOT
Low Priority for Action
Active
Groundwater
Gander
National Defence
Active
Not Available
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The map is built from the US EPA Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule, a United States programme. Canada has no equivalent national monitoring dataset for PFAS in drinking water. Sampling is run by provincial regulators and individual utilities, and results are published in their own reporting. The regulatory detail above is compiled from the NL Department of Environment and Climate Change source listed in the citations.
Every count above is read straight from a published government file. Nothing is modelled, averaged, or estimated. The rules below are the exact rules used to produce the figures for Newfoundland and Labrador.
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EPA UCMR 5 does not apply. UCMR 5 is a United States drinking water programme, so it produces no results for Newfoundland and Labrador. No US figure is reused or scaled to stand in for Canadian data.
Which sites are listed. Inventory records whose province field is NL and that carry the PFAS contaminant code. That gives 10 sites in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Site records, not samples. The inventory reports site status, classification, custodian, and affected media. It does not publish drinking water concentrations, so there is no Canadian equivalent of the US nanogram per litre figures.
Reporting lag. Custodian departments update their records on their own schedule, so a site may have progressed since it was last reported.
Limits and rules. The Newfoundland and Labrador standard shown above comes from NL Department of Environment and Climate Change, No jurisdiction-specific PFAS standard located; Health Canada Objective applies as guidance, reviewed 2026-08-13.
If any figure on this page does not match its source file, tell Nelson and it will be corrected or removed.
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