3/2/2025
WT Staff
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Safe Drinking Water Act
Wayne Central School District closed due to water main break
Mar 3 2025 Wayne County - Town of Ontario has announced a BWA for water customers west of Knickerbocker Rd following a water main break. Wayne County water is supplied by the Town of Ontario. As such, classes have been cancelled in Wayne Central School District impacting approximately 2200 students and all staff.
DWF Profile: Ontario Town Benefit Area #1
Watershed: Lake Ontario minor tributaries central
Status: No violations
Owner: local government
Location: Ontario, NY
County: Wayne
Active Permit: NY5801233
System Type: community water system
Population Served: 10,500 residents through 3955 connections
Source: surface water from Lake Ontario, raw water intake approximately three quarters of a mile offshore at a depth of 50 ft
Daily Average Demand: 2 million gallons per day peak demand 3.1 mgd
Annual Production: 661 million gallons
Treatment: From the 2023 Annual Water Quality Report, "As water enters the plant, coagulants are added to the incoming raw water to help clump together fine particles to enhance removal during filtration. The filtration process involves the utilization of multi-media filters containing sand and granular activated carbon (GAC) to remove particles as water passes through the media. This filtration process is the most important aspect of the treatment plant. During filtration, fine organic and inorganic particulate matter is removed, and an optimum turbidity (clarity of the water) is the result. Chlorine is used to disinfect the filtered water and to maintain a residual disinfectant throughout the water distribution system that delivers water to your home. In addition to chlorinating, ultraviolet disinfection is utilized as an effort in providing a multi-barrier disinfection process at the Town water plant. Prior to leaving the treatment plant the water is injected with fluoride."
Admin Contact: Michael Hershelman Town Engineer/Water Superintendent Phone 315.524.2941 x700
Latest Compliance Inspection: Sanitary survey, complete Nov 14, 2023 (State)
Status: No violations
Significant Deficiencies noted in Distribution, Management/Operation and Treatment
Minor deficiencies noted in Finished Water Storage
Recommendations made for Operator Compliance, Security
The following information gathered from federal EPA pertains to the quarter ending Sept 30, 2024 (data last refreshed on EPA database Jan 11 2025)
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Non-compliant inspections
(of the previous 12 quarters)
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with Significant Violations
(of the previous 12 quarters)
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Informal
Enforcement Actions
(last 5 yrs)
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Formal
Enforcement Actions
(last 5 years)
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0 out of 12
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0 out of 12
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0
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See a list of NY Drinking Water Facilities profiles, here.
*Note that drinking water information provided on this site is aggregated from the federal EPA database, state resources and local government sources where available.
EPA publishes violation and enforcement data quarterly, based on the inspection reports of the previous quarter. Water systems, states and EPA take up to three months to verify this data is accurate and complete.
Specific questions about your local water supply should be directed to the facility.
The EPA safe drinking water facilities data available to the public presents what is known to the government based upon the most recently available information for more than one million regulated facilities. EPA and states inspect a percentage of facilities each year, but many facilities, particularly smaller ones, may not have received a recent inspection. It is possible that facilities do have violations that have not yet been discovered, thus are shown as compliant in the system.
EPA cannot positively state that facilities without violations shown in ECHO are necessarily fully compliant with environmental laws. Additionally, some violations at smaller facilities do not need to be reported from the states to EPA. If ECHO shows a recent inspection and the facility is shown with no violations identified, users of the ECHO site can be more confident that the facility is in compliance with federal programs.
The compliance status of smaller facilities that have not had recent inspections or review by EPA or the states may be unknown or only available via state data systems.
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