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Legislature chairman outlines update to county sewer use law after EPA audit

3384986 · May 19, 2025
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Summary

Pierre Shagnat presented Intro Local Law 2‑25, an update to Chautauqua County’s sewer use regulations that modernizes a 1979 law last revised in 1994. The update was prompted by an EPA review of the industrial sewer district’s discharge to the City of Dunkirk treatment plant.

Pierre Shagnat, chairman of the Chautauqua County Legislature, briefed the Public Facilities Committee on Intro Local Law 2‑25 — a proposed update to the county’s sewer use regulations — during the committee’s May 19 meeting.

The short version: Shagnat said the law’s purpose is to provide for “efficient, economic, environmentally safe, and legal operation of the publicly owned treatment works established, existing and…

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