Transient Non-Community · PWSID NJ2113307

Butcher's Grill - Columbia

Serves 57 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateColumbia, 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 1991: 26 violations. 3 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 14 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-10-11.

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

3Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
14Missed or late test
7Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 90% 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

1991 · Missed or late test: 31991 · Missed or late test: 31991 · Missed or late test: 31992 · Missed or late test: 119952000 · Missed or late test: 120002003 · Missed or late test: 12005201020152018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 12020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Over the limit: 22022 · Over the limit: 22022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Notice or report: 52023 · Notice or report: 52023 · Notice or report: 52023 · Notice or report: 52023 · Notice or report: 52025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
12% over the limit · 38% treatment lapse · 254% missed or late test · 1427% notice or report · 7

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2023-09-03Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-10-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2023-09-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2023-09-03Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  4. 2023-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2023-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  7. 2023-06-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  8. 2023-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2023-02-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  10. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2022-12-06E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2022-11-08E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2022-10-19Groundwater RuleFailure To Address ContaminationBack in compliance
  14. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  15. 2022-06-22E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2022-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2020-12-24Groundwater RuleFailure To Address ContaminationBack in compliance
  18. 2020-09-25Groundwater RuleFailure to Consult with StateBack in compliance
  19. 2018-11-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  20. 2018-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2003-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  22. 2000-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  23. 1992-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  24. 1991-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  25. 1991-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
Show the other 1 entries
  1. 1991-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive

System details

Population served57
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityColumbia
EPA ZIP on file07832

Areas served

  • Warren County

Reading this record

Butcher's Grill - Columbia is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 57 people in Columbia, 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.