This Bureau of Public Health Engineering program provides engineering services in the following areas:

• Public Water Systems (PWSs) – surveillance, inspection, and regulatory oversight

• Permitted Non-Public Water Systems (NPs) – surveillance, inspection, and regulatory oversight

• Bottled and bulk water – inspection and complaint investigation

• Drinking Water Regulations

• Individual well water supplies – provide information, education, and assistance

• Plan review and approval – public water system improvements (source, treatment, distribution, and storage)

• Plan review and approval – backflow prevention devices

• Sampling – surveillance and monitoring

• Annual Drinking Water Quality Reports

• Bacteria
• Lead in Drinking Water

• Water operators – evaluation for certification

• Water operators and other water industry professionals – provide training and assistance

• Complaint investigations

• Contamination investigations

• Issuing Boil Water Orders and other Public Notifications

• Provides the public with information and education on public and private drinking water  

• Surface water,  i.e. lake and stream, and groundwater quality investigations

• Coordinates closely with the Plumbing Control Section of Onondaga County’s Department of Water Environment Protection and local code enforcement officials

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