Community Water System · PWSID NJ1329001

Matawan Borough Water De

Serves 9,084 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentMatawan, New Jersey
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On record since 2016: 18 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 15 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-07-01.

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
15Missed or late test
2Notice or report

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

2005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42017 · Missed or late test: 42018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 52020 · Missed or late test: 52020 · Missed or late test: 52020 · Missed or late test: 52020 · Missed or late test: 520202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Treatment lapse: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% treatment lapse · 183% missed or late test · 1511% 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 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

0.6 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWQP Entry Point/Tap Treatment Technique Non-ComplianceBack in compliance
  2. 2021-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2020-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  4. 2020-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2020-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2020-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2019-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2019-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2019-06-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  11. 2018-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2017-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  13. 2017-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  14. 2017-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2017-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-09-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  17. 2016-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  18. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served9,084
Service connections2,840
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityMatawan
EPA ZIP on file07747

Areas served

    Reading this record

    Matawan Borough Water De is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 9,084 people in Matawan, 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.