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PFAS in Prince Edward Island: limits, rules, and federal sites

PFAS drinking water rules in Prince Edward Island, 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 Prince Edward Island 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.

Federal sites with PFAS recorded
2
Still classified active
2
Highest federal priority class
0

What Prince Edward Island requires

Guidance value only

Agency
PEI Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action
Citation
No jurisdiction-specific PFAS standard located; Health Canada Objective applies as guidance
Effective
2024-08-09

PEI adopts the HC Objective; groundwater-reliant PWS are prioritized under the provincial monitoring program. 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)

Citations

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.

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Federal sites in Prince Edward Island with PFAS recorded

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 Prince Edward Island: MOT (2).

Site

Municipality

Custodian

Classification

Status

Media affected

Charlottetown Airport Fire Training Area

Charlottetown

MOT

Medium Priority for Action

Active

Groundwater, Soil

Charlottetown Airport Former Fire Training Area

Charlottetown

MOT

Medium Priority for Action

Active

Groundwater

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Why there are no system counts for Prince Edward Island

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 PEI Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action source listed in the citations.

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Where the numbers on this page come from

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 Prince Edward Island.

Dataset used for the federal site counts

Source
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory
Selection rule
Sites where the inventory records contaminant code 73, PFAS (per and poly fluoroalkyl substances), as a contaminant of concern.
Scope
97 PFAS sites out of 24,426 sites in the inventory. Provincial, municipal, and private sites are outside this inventory.
Extracted
2026-08-13
Licence
Open Government Licence - Canada

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Coverage rules that decide what is counted for Prince Edward Island

EPA UCMR 5 does not apply. UCMR 5 is a United States drinking water programme, so it produces no results for Prince Edward Island. No US figure is reused or scaled to stand in for Canadian data.

Which sites are listed. Inventory records whose province field is PE and that carry the PFAS contaminant code. That gives 2 sites in Prince Edward Island.

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 Prince Edward Island standard shown above comes from PEI Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action, 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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