Community Water System · PWSID NJ0303001

Bordentown Water Departm

Serves 15,821 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentBordentown, New Jersey
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 2009: 18 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 13 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
13Missed or late test
4Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 84% 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

20052009 · Notice or report: 22009 · Notice or report: 22010 · Missed or late test: 1201020152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% treatment lapse · 172% missed or late test · 1322% notice or report · 4

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

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 15 results on file · action level 15 ppb

76 ppb
43.1 ppb
40 ppb
30 ppb
25 ppb
7.7 ppb
4.3 ppb
3.4 ppb
3.3 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.3 ppb
0.74 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2023-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  3. 2023-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWQP Entry Point/Tap Treatment Technique Non-ComplianceBack in compliance
  4. 2021-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  5. 2021-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  6. 2020-03-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  7. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  8. 2019-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  9. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  10. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  11. 2018-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  12. 2018-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2017-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2016-07-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2010-01-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  17. 2009-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2009-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served15,821
Service connections5,180
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBordentown
EPA ZIP on file08505

Areas served

  • Burlington County

Reading this record

Bordentown Water Departm is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 15,821 people in Bordentown, 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.