Jamestown Bpu

Water Quality Snapshot: Jamestown Bpu

Jamestown Bpu is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 46,712 residents in Jamestown, New York (Chautauqua County) through 17,100 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 171 total violations for this system , of which 3 (2%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 168 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2014.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene, recorded in 8 violations (MR). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across New York, EPA tracks 8,098 public water systems serving 19,294,951 people, with 552,003 cumulative violations and 26,817 health-based violations on record. About 94% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 68.2 violations. Statewide, 129 of 332 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (38.9%).

Jamestown Bpu's 171 violations sit above the New York average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.