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Safe Drinking Water Act
DWF Profile: Buffalo Water Authority
Watershed: Niagara River - Lake Erie
Status: No current violations
Owner: local government
Location: Buffalo, NY
County: Erie
Active Permit: NY1400422
System Type: community water system
Population Served: 276,000 residents
Source: surface water from Lake Erie
Daily Demand: 100,000 to 150,000 gallons
Annual Production: 33 million gallons
Treatment: deep groundwater wells have the benefit of natural percolation factors, as the water filters through the bedrock, clay and natural sediments. The treatment system involves running the water through Culligan softeners to remove iron, calcium and manganese followed by disinfection with sodium hypochlorite.
Admin Contact: Peter Merlo Tel 716-851-4766
Latest Compliance Inspection: Sanitary survey, complete Nov 1, 2021 (State)
Status: No violations
Minor deficiencies noted in Management/Operation, Finished Water Storage
The following information gathered from federal EPA pertains to the quarter ending Sep 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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1 out of 12
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0 out of 12
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4
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Non-compliance History:
Monitoring and Reporting Violation - Lead and Copper Rule noted July 1, 2024 to resolved
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*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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