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Onondaga County, New York

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NY067 · Onondaga County 88 sys · 2,561 viol · #116/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-MID · SRC-GW · SYS-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 83.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 17.7% health
  • RANK-TOP #116/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.3 pp
  • PFAS-MID 28.6% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 88%
  • SYS-MID 88 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Orleans County ( -0.3 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Onondaga County ranks #116 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #6 of 58 counties in New York. See methodology · corpus placement.

Onondaga County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 83.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 17.7% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 28.6% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #116 of 3,254 · #6 of 58 in New York.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Onondaga County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Niagara · lowest Suffolk · near Onondaga · this county Cortland · highest 38.1% 79.6% 80.9% 82.6% 83% 84.6% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Ocwa 350,000 7 Detected
Syracuse City 192,000 106 Clean
Dewitt Wds - South 16,200 54 Clean
Clay Wds 16,000 35 Clean
Dewitt Wds - North 13,600 33 Clean
Baldwinsville Village 9,200 15 Detected
Skaneateles Wds 3,500 64 Clean
Skaneateles Village 2,610 73 -
Elbridge Village 1,519 77 -
McDonalds of Lafayette 1,500 8 -
Jordan Village 1,400 85 -
Tully Village 930 10 -
Byrne Dairy Lafayette Store 500 4 -
Fabius High School 499 4 -
Sunset Park Campground Inc 450 32 -
Onondaga Nation - Native American 450 0 -
C Grant Grimshaw School 449 16 -
Lafayette High School 448 3 -
Champion Park 400 16 -
Fabius Elementary School 340 0 -
Rolling Hills Community, LLC 200 73 -
Fastrac Lafayette 200 45 -
Hidden Hills 200 58 -
Cardiff Tookes Spring 152 4 -
Butternut Landing MHP 129 30 -
Vesper Hills Golf Club 110 31 -
Tanner Valley Golf Course 100 32 -
Tully Hill-N-Dale C C 100 81 -
Mandana Inn 100 24 -
Lords Hill Apartments 100 398 -
Cindys Old Tymes Cafe 100 71 -
Burger King Restaurant #6631 86 36 -
Pompey Club (The) 80 30 -
Willow Wood Apartments 80 40 -
Delphi Falls Park 78 58 -
Knoxies Pub 75 32 -
Valis Golden Apple Restaurant 75 11 -
Otisco Lake Campground 75 9 -
Hilltop Ice Cream 75 37 -
Apple Ridge Apartments West 75 43 -
Festival Garden Apartments 72 24 -
Marcellus Pizza 72 28 -
Lafayette Inn 70 2 -
Mobile Manor Mobile Home Park 58 170 -
Lafayette Post Office (Ran Bldg) 55 6 -
Brian Reeves Route 370 Mlc 53 27 -
The Nest Tavern 51 31 -
Ocwa Skyridge Community WD 50 0 -
Wildwood Event Center 50 48 -
Dollar General Pompey 50 1 -

Compare beyond New York

Lower-flagged peers for Onondaga County

Cross-state counties nearest Onondaga County on flagged-system share (83.0%) and cumulative violation count (2,561). 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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