Bird Island STP
90 West Ferry St., Buffalo, NY 14213 · Erie County · Publicly Owned Treatment Works
- Average flow
- —
- Design flow
- 180 MGD
- NPDES permit
- NY0028410
- Effective
- Permit expires
- May 2031
- Population served
- 519,261
- CWNS 2022
Bird Island STP is a publicly owned wastewater treatment works in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, serving about 519,261 residents. It discharges under NPDES permit NY0028410 (effective), which expires in May 2031, with 24 recorded violations in the last three years. EPA has recorded 6 formal enforcement actions naming the plant, the latest in April 2014.
Treatment technology
4 treatment structures and unit processes identified at Bird Island STP.
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Compliance snapshot (last 3 years)
- Total violations
- 24
- Effluent violations
- 23
Based on NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reports. Full violation history, parameters and discharge data available in the Klarifi platform.
EPA enforcement history
Federal civil enforcement cases, compliance inspections and informal actions recorded for Bird Island STP in EPA's ICIS system.
- Formal actions
- 6
- 0 since FY2020
- Compliance actions
- $500M
- required by EPA orders
- EPA inspections
- 1
- latest Jun 2005
Latest case · Apr 2014
Buffalo Sewer Authority
Administrative order · CWA, NPDES Permit Violations · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
EPA's description of the case:
“EPA is amending the Respondent's 2012 Administrative Order to memorialize the approved CSO Long Term Control Plan (LTCP) with a final compliance date of March 18, 2034. The Respondent serves…”
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Source: EPA ECHO, civil enforcement case 02-2014-3033.
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Every action against Bird Island STP with dates, milestones, violation types and EPA's complete case summaries, plus inspections and informal actions.
Key contacts
1 verified contact for Bird Island STP, with validated emails and direct phone numbers.
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Bird Island STP: frequently asked questions
Sources and methodology
Flow, permit and violation figures come from the EPA's ICIS-NPDES discharge monitoring records. Population served comes from the Clean Watersheds Needs Survey 2022. Treatment structures are identified by Klarifi's review of aerial imagery, and capital improvement projects are extracted from published municipal budget documents. Violations are counted over the last three years of monitoring reports.
Data refreshed October 26, 2026; facility record last updated September 18, 2026.
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