Transient Non-Community · PWSID NJ1406331

Artista Italian Specialties

Serves 43 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateChester, New Jersey
Nothing open that measures the water, but 4 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2016: 14 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 9 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-11.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

1Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
9Missed or late test2 open
3Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 80% of active water systems in New Jersey. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2005201020152016 · Over the limit: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Treatment lapse: 12025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
7% over the limit · 17% treatment lapse · 164% missed or late test · 921% notice or report · 3

Across New Jersey, 74% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Nitrate2016-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.04 MG/L vs limit 10.50 MG/L (1.1×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Open now (4)

  1. 2025-09-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  2. 2025-03-05E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  3. 2024-08-15E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  4. 2024-07-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  2. 2025-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-05-11Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  5. 2025-03-05E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  6. 2024-08-15E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  7. 2024-07-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  8. 2024-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2024-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2021-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2020-07-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  12. 2020-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2020-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2016-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 11.04 MG/L · limit 10.50 MG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served43
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityChester
EPA ZIP on file07930

Areas served

  • Morris County

Reading this record

Artista Italian Specialties is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 43 people in Chester, New Jersey. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.