Community Water System · PWSID NJ0505002

Lower Twp Mua

Serves 10,315 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentVillas, New Jersey
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On record since 2013: 27 violations. 25 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-09-29.

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
0Treatment lapse
25Missed or late test
2Notice or report

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

200520102013 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 112020 · Missed or late test: 1120202021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
93% missed or late test · 257% notice or report · 2

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 12 results on file · action level 15 ppb

9.1 ppb
8.3 ppb
5.9 ppb
4.8 ppb
4.5 ppb
3.1 ppb
2.9 ppb
2.7 ppb
2.1 ppb
2.1 ppb
2 ppb
1.3 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  2. 2021-04-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2021-04-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2021-01-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2021-01-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2020-10-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2020-10-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2020-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  9. 2020-02-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2020-01-01Nitrate ×6Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  12. 2019-08-21E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2019-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  15. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  16. 2017-02-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2017-02-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2017-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2016-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2015-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served10,315
Service connections9,882
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityVillas
EPA ZIP on file08251

Areas served

  • Cape May County

Reading this record

Lower Twp Mua is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 10,315 people in Villas, 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.