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Is Niagara Falls, NY tap water safe?

3 utilities serve Niagara Falls, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and New York’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

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The short answer

None of the 3 utilities serving Niagara Falls has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and New York’s records.

Niagara Falls Water Board, which serves the most people here, has 3 results above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 5.9 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Niagara Falls’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Niagara Falls Water Board’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Niagara Falls

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab New York certifies.

The 3 labs New York certifies closest to Niagara Falls, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Niagara Falls Water Quality Laboratory

    Niagara Falls, NY · about 3 miles

    Certified for bacteria, minerals and other inorganics, disinfection byproducts

    (716) 283-9770

  • Erie County Public Health Laboratory

    Buffalo, NY · about 14 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals

    (716) 898-6100

  • Biotrax Testing Laboratory

    Cheektowaga, NY · about 16 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (716) 651-0146

All 161 certified labs for New York

ZIP codes in Niagara Falls

Which ZIP codes are in Niagara Falls: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: NYS Environmental Laboratory Approval Program (ELAP), drinking water labs, as listed in TNI LAMS; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Niagara Falls

Other towns in Niagara County with a page of their own.

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