Buffalo water, sewer & drainage 311 requests
How many 311 requests in the water, sewer & drainage category residents of Buffalo have filed since June 2024.
Current release
Data through April 12, 2026
Data from June 2024 through April 12, 2026
Total Requests
4.3K
in the water, sewer & drainage category
Latest Month
59
April 2026
Share of total
2.9%
of all Buffalo 311 requests
Median Resolution
13.1d
half of requests close faster
Monthly water, sewer & drainage requests
How many water, sewer & drainage 311 requests Buffalo residents file each month.
How this category is extracted
What counts as water, sewer & drainage: Water main breaks and leaks, sewer backups, storm drain clogs, catch basin concerns, and flooding.
In Buffalo’s raw 311 feed, the following 2 service_type values roll into water, sewer & drainage:
- Buffalo Water Testing Request
- Sewer Issue
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <buffalo_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Buffalo Water Testing Request',
'Sewer Issue'
)Analyst tip: Austin uses 'AW -' (Austin Water) and 'WPD -' (Watershed Protection Department) prefixes. Calgary uses 'WATS -' (Water and Sewer). NYC uses 'WATER LEAK' and 'Water System'. Baton Rouge has a broader 'ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES' that may include non-water items — cross-check against the raw feed if precision matters.
See how water, sewer & drainage is defined for every tracked city →
Source & provenance
Counts on this page are derived from Buffalo’s official open 311 data feed, covering June 2024 through April 12, 2026. Category assignment uses a hand-curated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at data.buffalony.gov.