Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID NJ1924318

Clifton E Lawrence School

Serves 543 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentAllamuchy, New JerseyServes a school or daycare
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Lead and Copper Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2017: 15 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 10 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-07.

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 lapse1 open
10Missed or late test
3Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 81% 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

2005201020152017 · Over the limit: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Treatment lapse: 12025 · Missed or late test: 52025 · Missed or late test: 52025 · Missed or late test: 52025 · Missed or late test: 52025 · Missed or late test: 52025 · 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 · 167% missed or late test · 1020% notice or report · 3

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

What you can do

  • Lead: Run cold water for 30 seconds to 2 minutes before using it for drinking or cooking, especially after the water has been sitting for several hours. Use only cold water for cooking and baby formula. Consider a water filter certified to remove lead (look for NSF/ANSI Standard 53 certification). Have your water tested if you live in an older home.

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 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

33 ppb
19.7 ppb
5.7 ppb
3 ppb
2.2 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 2 results on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

2.2 mg/L
2.2 mg/L

Open now (2)

  1. 2025-08-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-04-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-04-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationOpen
  3. 2025-01-01Temperature (Centigrade)Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-01-01Alkalinity, TotalWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-01-01pHWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-01-01Conductivity @ 25 C Umhos/CmWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2025-01-01CalciumWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2021-09-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2020-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2020-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2019-02-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  12. 2018-08-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  13. 2018-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2017-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance

System details

Population served543
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityAllamuchy
EPA ZIP on file07820

Areas served

  • Sussex County

Reading this record

Clifton E Lawrence School is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 543 people in Allamuchy, 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.