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Niagara County, New York

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NY063 · Niagara County 21 sys · 128 viol · #302/3254

VIOL-HIGH · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-TOP · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-LOW · SRC-SW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-HIGH 38.1% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 1.6% health
  • RANK-TOP #302/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 25.1 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-LOW 14.3% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 21 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Monroe County (+ 25.1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Niagara County ranks #302 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #13 of 58 counties in New York. See methodology · corpus placement.

Niagara County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 38.1% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 1.6% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 14.3% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #302 of 3,254 · #13 of 58 in New York.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Niagara County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Niagara County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Niagara · this county · lowest Rockland · near 38.1% 63.2% 63.3% 79.6% 80.9% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Niagara Falls Water Board 50,193 84 Clean
North Tonawanda City 31,568 0 Clean
Lockport City WTP 21,165 0 Clean
Lockport Town Wds 21,105 0 Clean
Wheatfield WD 18,117 0 Clean
Lewiston Water Improvementarea 16,257 0 Detected
Newfane Town Wds 9,304 2 Detected
Niagara Water Improvement Area 8,100 0 Clean
Royalton Townwide Water Dist. 7,710 0 Clean
Porter Master Improvement Area 6,920 1 Clean
Pendleton Town WD 6,050 1 Clean
Wilson Town Water District 5,993 1 Clean
Cambria Water District 5,839 5 Clean
Hartland WD 4,117 0 Clean
Lewiston Village 2,781 1 -
Somerset Consolidated WD 2,723 0 -
Youngstown (V) 2,021 0 -
Middleport Village 1,917 33 -
Wilson Village 1,213 0 -
Barker Village 577 0 -
Niagara County Water District 0 0 -

Compare beyond New York

Lower-flagged peers for Niagara County

Cross-state counties nearest Niagara County on flagged-system share (38.1%) and cumulative violation count (128). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers
Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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