DrinkingWaterCheck

Is BUFFALO TWP MUN AUTH FREEPORT's water safe to drink?

BUFFALO TWP MUN AUTH FREEPORT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,849 people get their water from it, across 3,156 connections.

BUFFALO TWP MUN AUTH FREEPORT's record against the rest of the country

Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, BUFFALO TWP MUN AUTH FREEPORT ranks 2,915th by violation burden (77th percentile) - 156 violations total, 6 health-baseds.

How BUFFALO TWP MUN AUTH FREEPORT compares within PA

BUFFALO TWP MUN AUTH FREEPORT's 6 health-based violations sit above the PA average of 5.5, across 475 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for BUFFALO TWP MUN AUTH FREEPORT is from 2023-01-11 (health-based: 2021-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/15/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

BUFFALO TWP MUN AUTH FREEPORT's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:

The most severe category on record is synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / vocs, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What this data is and is not

BUFFALO TWP MUN AUTH FREEPORT's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and BUFFALO TWP MUN AUTH FREEPORT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,915th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.