3/7/2025
Sarah Thiessen
 Drinking water questions? Give us a call at 877-52-WATER (877-529-2837), or email info@wtny.us
Friday, March 7, 2025 239 pm EST
Safe Drinking Water Act
Water main break in the City of Oswego
News Release: Mar 6 2025: Oswego County - City of Oswego – BOIL YOUR WATER BEFORE USING ALL 7th Ward – and anyone affected by the water outage this morning/today.
Bring tap water to a rolling boil, boil for two minutes, and cool before using. Or use bottled water certified for sale by the New York State Department of Health. Boiled or bottled water should be used for drinking, making ice, washing dishes, brushing teeth, and preparing food until further notice. Harmful microbes in drinking water can cause diarrhea, cramps, nausea, headaches, or other symptoms and may pose a special health risk for infants, some elderly, and people with severely compromised immune systems. But these symptoms are not just caused by microbes in drinking water. If you experience any of these symptoms and they persist, you should seek medical advice. Due to a repair on your water main, you will need to boil water for the next 48 hours.
You will be informed when tests show that you no longer need to boil your water.
For more information, please contact: Jon Lacey of the Oswego Water Treatment Plant at 315-342-8187, or the Oswego County Health Department at 315-349-3557.
DWF Profile: Oswego City
Watershed: Oswego River -Finger Lakes Watershed
Status: No Violations Identified
Owner: local government
Location: Oswego, NY
County: Oswego
Active Permit: NY3704361
System Type: community water system
Population Served: 29,400 residents
Source: surface water from Lake Ontario
Treatment: From the 2023 Annual Water Quality Report, "Raw water enters the Oswego Pumping Station through an intake tunnel where it is filtered in the water treatment plant, disinfected with chlorine, and treated with fluoride prior to distribution. "
Daily Capacity: up to 26 million gallons per day
Admin Contact: Jon Lacey Tel 315.342.8187
Latest Compliance Inspection: Sanitary survey, complete Dec 4, 2023 (State)
Status: No Violation Identified
No deficiencies or recommendations
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
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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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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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