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Erie County, NY drinking water systems

40 community water systems serve Erie County, NY, reporting 945,396 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

6 of them (15%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 9 systems still have one unresolved.

16 rely mainly on groundwater and 24 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

39 systems filed a lead service line inventory listing 34,535 lead lines, 5,304 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 76,189 lines of unknown material.

5 more systems are placed in Erie County, NY by the county their records name because they have no service area map that lines up with their own records, so they are listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems
40
People served, sum of each system's own figure
945,396
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
6
Systems with one unresolved
9
Lead service lines in inventories
34,535

Water systems serving Erie County

40 systems

People served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Ecwa Direct Cheektowaga, West Seneca and 12 more and land outside them 313,380 Surface water 0 0 248
Buffalo Water Authority Buffalo 276,000 Surface water 0 0 34,208
Ecwa Amherst University at Buffalo and land outside it 92,697 Purchased surface water 0 0 3
Tonawanda, Town Water Dept. Tonawanda Town, Kenmore and 1 more 72,571 Surface water 0 0 5
Ecwa Lancaster Town Line and land outside it 29,018 Purchased surface water 0 0 1
Ecwa Orchard Park Orchard Park and land outside it 24,582 Purchased surface water 0 0 1
Ecwa West Seneca West Seneca 23,557 Purchased surface water 0 0 1
Grand Island Town Water Dept. Grandyle Village and land outside it 19,500 Surface water 0 0 0
Kenmore Village Kenmore 15,423 Purchased surface water 0 1 1
Ecwa Evans Lake Erie Beach, Angola on the Lake and 1 more 12,338 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Elma Water District No. 1 Elma Center and Billington Heights and land outside them 10,287 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Ecwa Hamburg (V) Hamburg 9,744 Purchased surface water 0 0 52
Ecwa Boston North Boston and land outside it 7,250 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
East Aurora Village East Aurora 6,610 Purchased surface water 0 2 0
Ecwa Newstead Akron and land outside it 5,801 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Springville Village Springville 4,266 Groundwater 0 0 0
Angola Village Angola and Angola on the Lake 4,050 Purchased surface water 0 0 3
Orchard Park Village Orchard Park and land outside it 3,100 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Gowanda Village Gowanda 2,800 Surface water 2 0 0
Alden Village Alden 2,666 Groundwater 0 0 0
Holland Water District Holland 1,680 Groundwater 0 0 0
Collins/Gowanda Correctional Facility Outside cities and towns 1,512 Groundwater 0 1 0
North Collins Village North Collins 1,496 Groundwater 0 0 10
Collins WDS #1 and #2 Outside cities and towns 1,400 Groundwater 0 0 0
Collins WD #3 Outside cities and towns 760 Groundwater 0 0 0
Town of Brant Outside cities and towns 465 Purchased surface water 0 2 0
Colden Water District #1 Outside cities and towns 445 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
Farnham Village Farnham 404 Purchased surface water 0 0 2
Craneridge Water Supply Outside cities and towns 360 Groundwater 0 0 0
Chaffee Water Co Outside cities and towns 200 Groundwater 1 4 No inventory
Evans Water District Highland-on-the-Lake and Angola 160 Purchased surface water 0 1 0
Hunters Creek Mobile Home Park Outside cities and towns 150 Groundwater 0 1 0
Creekside M.H.P. Outside cities and towns 120 Groundwater 2 0 0
Springwood Mobile Village Outside cities and towns 120 Groundwater 0 1 0
Big Tree Mobile Home Park Outside cities and towns 99 Groundwater 1 2 0
Lawtons Water Co Outside cities and towns 95 Purchased surface water 4 0 0
Springville Mobile Village Outside cities and towns 90 Groundwater 0 0 0
Circle Court Mobile Park Outside cities and towns 90 Groundwater under direct influence 1 0 0
Perkins Mobile Home Park Outside cities and towns 75 Groundwater 0 0 0
Circle B Trailer Court Outside cities and towns 35 Groundwater 0 0 0

Systems placed by county record in Erie County

5 systems

EPA has no service area map for these systems. They are placed by the county their records name (the counties EPA lists them serving, or the county coded in their IDs where EPA lists none), and without a map they are not counted in the figures above.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Akron Village County on record 3,100 Surface water 2 0 0
Eden-Wepax Road County on record 48 Purchased surface water 1 0 0
Villager Apartments County on record 40 Groundwater 1 0 0
Holland Hills Apartments County on record 30 Groundwater 1 2 0
Town of Aurora Private Waterlines County on record 25 Purchased surface water 0 1 0

Cities and towns in Erie County

34 places

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Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations