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Shelby Town Wds

What EPA’s and New York’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
1,200 people
Connections
400
Water source
Surface water bought from another system
Based in
Shelby (T), NY
County
Orleans
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

14103

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2002 to 2025.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic and nitrate: New York’s yearly summaries per water system, 2020 to 2024, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

1.4ppb

90th percentile, 2025

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 1.4 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

69.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024 average: 62.7 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 69.4 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 110 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, it averaged 62.7 ppb. EPA recorded no violation for total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at this utility since 2020. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 92.5 ppb, in 2014, and EPA recorded violations in 2014 and 2015.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

43.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024 average: 39.7 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 43.6 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 70.7 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, it averaged 39.7 ppb. EPA recorded no violation for haloacetic acids (HAA5) at this utility since 2020. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 56.3 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

2 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Nitrate

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 3 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic and nitrate results here are New York’s own yearly summaries from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Shelby Town Wds’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; New York’s yearly summaries cover 2020 to 2024.

Testing your own tap

Shelby Town Wds’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab New York certifies.

The 3 labs New York certifies closest to the area Shelby Town Wds serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • EMSL Analytical Inc.

    Depew, NY · about 27 miles

    Certified for bacteria, asbestos

    (716) 651-0030

  • Biotrax Testing Laboratory

    Cheektowaga, NY · about 29 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (716) 651-0146

  • Niagara Falls Water Quality Laboratory

    Niagara Falls, NY · about 30 miles

    Certified for bacteria, minerals and other inorganics, disinfection byproducts

    (716) 283-9770

All 161 certified labs for New York

Sources

PWSID NY3600602. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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