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7/11/2025
Sarah Thiessen
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Friday, July 11 2025, 10:42 am EDT
Safe Drinking Water Profile: Fredonia Village
July 10 2025 Chautauqua County - The Village of Fredonia has issued a boil water advisory due to high levels of turbidity at the water plant.
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DWF Profile: Fredonia Village
Watershed: Niagara River Lake Erie
Status: No violations Identified
Owner: local government
Location: Fredonia, NY
County: Chautauqua County
Active Permit: NY0600364
System Type: community water system
Population Served: 9455
Source: surface water
Treatment: From the 2024 Annual Water Quality Report, "The Village of Fredonia draws its water from the Fredonia Reservoir. The present estimated storage capacity of the reservoir is 211 million gallons. The watershed area that feeds the reservoir covers more than five square miles. A vast majority of the watershed is unpopulated and heavily wooded. In addition to the reservoir, we have an emergency interconnection with the City of Dunkirk that can supply less than half the average daily demand of the Village. The treatment process consists of a series of steps. First, raw water is drawn from our reservoir and sent to clarifiers, where polyaluminumchloride, polymer, and clay are added. The addition of these substances cause small particles to adhere to one another (called floc), making them large enough to collide and group together and be caught in the bottom of the clarifier. From here, the clarified water is piped to the filter beds. The water is filtered through layers of anthracite coal and silicate sand. As smaller, suspended particles are removed, turbidity is removed and clear water emerges. We then carefully monitor and add chlorine to the filtered water to kill any potentially harmful bacteria. Before entering the clear well, poly orthophosphate is added for corrosion control to reduce lead-leaching from household plumbing. The water travels into our on-site clear well. This clear well is baffled to allow the chlorine to react with the water so it becomes thoroughly disinfected. Upon exiting the clear well, the water travels through three transmission lines in the village. This is all done using gravity. "
Daily Capacity: 1.4 million gallons per day
Admin Contact: Luis Fred, 716-679-2310
Latest Compliance Inspection: Sanitary Survey (state) July 13, 2021
Recommendations made for source
Significant deficiencies in distribution, finished water storage, security and treatment
The following information gathered from federal EPA pertains to the quarter ending Dec 31, 2024 (data last refreshed on EPA database June 17, 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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11 out of 12
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1 out of 12
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25
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8
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Violations and Non-compliance History:
Monitoring and Reporting - Volatile Organic Chemicals -noted from January 1 2024 to December 31 2024 - unaddressed
Monitoring and Reporting - Synthetic Organic Chemicals -noted from January 1 2022 to December 31 2022 - unaddressed
Monitoring and Reporting -Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule -noted from April 1 2022 to April 13 2023 - unaddressed
Monitoring and Reporting -Lead and Copper Rule -noted from July 1 2021 to December 31 2022 - unaddressed
Monitoring -Revised Total Coliform Rule -noted from October 1 2022 to September 30 2023 - unaddressed
Monitoring and Reporting - Inorganic Chemicals - noted from October 1 2024 to December 31 2024 - unaddressed
Monitoring and Reporting - Arsenic Rule- noted from January 1 2024 to December 31 2024 - unaddressed
*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.
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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.
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