Community Water System · PWSID NJ1214001

New Brunswick W Dept

Serves 55,000 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentNew Brunswick, New Jersey
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On record since 2010: 56 violations. 2 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 30 missed or late tests · 23 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-01-01.

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

2Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
30Missed or late test
23Notice or report

More violations on record than 96% 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

20052010 · Notice or report: 52010 · Notice or report: 52010 · Notice or report: 52010 · Notice or report: 52010 · Notice or report: 520102011 · Notice or report: 72011 · Notice or report: 72011 · Notice or report: 72011 · Notice or report: 72011 · Notice or report: 72011 · Notice or report: 72011 · Notice or report: 72012 · Notice or report: 52012 · Notice or report: 52012 · Notice or report: 52012 · Notice or report: 52012 · Notice or report: 52013 · Notice or report: 22013 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Missed or late test: 72017 · Missed or late test: 72017 · Missed or late test: 72017 · Missed or late test: 72017 · Missed or late test: 72017 · Missed or late test: 72017 · Missed or late test: 72017 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62023 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% over the limit · 22% treatment lapse · 154% missed or late test · 3041% notice or report · 23

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2016-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0810 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2016-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0890 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

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

5.8 ppb
4.5 ppb
4.4 ppb
4 ppb
4 ppb
2.8 ppb
2.8 ppb
2.1 ppb
2.1 ppb
2 ppb
1.9 ppb
1.9 ppb
1.7 ppb
1.4 ppb
1.4 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-01-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-01-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2023-07-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2023-07-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2023-07-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2023-04-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2023-04-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2023-04-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2022-01-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2022-01-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2021-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  15. 2021-05-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  16. 2021-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2021-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  18. 2021-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2020-07-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2020-07-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2020-01-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2020-01-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWQP Entry Point/Tap Treatment Technique Non-ComplianceBack in compliance
  25. 2019-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
Show the other 29 entries
  1. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2017-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  3. 2017-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  4. 2017-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  5. 2017-05-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  6. 2017-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2017-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  8. 2017-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0810 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2016-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  11. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0890 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2013-04-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2013-02-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2012-12-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2012-10-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2012-02-28Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2012-01-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2011-12-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2011-05-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2011-03-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2011-03-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2011-02-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2011-01-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2010-12-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  26. 2010-10-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  27. 2010-04-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  28. 2010-03-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  29. 2010-03-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served55,000
Service connections8,500
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityNew Brunswick
EPA ZIP on file08901

Areas served

  • Middlesex County

Reading this record

New Brunswick W Dept is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 55,000 people in New Brunswick, 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.