Community Water System · PWSID NJ1915001

Newton Water & Sewer Utility

Serves 8,300 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentNewton, New Jersey
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On record since 2016: 13 violations. 3 over the limit · 9 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. 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
0Treatment lapse
9Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 78% 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: 22017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Over the limit: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 220202022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
23% over the limit · 369% missed or late test · 98% notice or report · 1

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×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2018-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0630 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2017-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0820 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2017-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0810 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)
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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.8 ppb
2 ppb
1.3 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-10-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2023-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  4. 2018-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  5. 2018-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0630 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2018-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  7. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2017-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  9. 2017-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0810 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2017-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2016-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR) ×2Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance

System details

Population served8,300
Service connections2,421
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityNewton
EPA ZIP on file07860

Areas served

  • Sussex County

Reading this record

Newton Water & Sewer Utility is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 8,300 people in Newton, 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.