Community Water System · PWSID NJ1524001

Point Pleasant Water Department

Serves 19,600 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentPoint Pleasant, New Jersey
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On record since 2011: 78 violations. 72 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-01.

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
0Treatment lapse
72Missed or late test
6Notice or report

More violations on record than 98% 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

200520102011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 52014 · Missed or late test: 520152016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Missed or late test: 42016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 112018 · Missed or late test: 112018 · Missed or late test: 112018 · Missed or late test: 112019 · Missed or late test: 332019 · Missed or late test: 332019 · Missed or late test: 332019 · Missed or late test: 332019 · Missed or late test: 332019 · Missed or late test: 332019 · Missed or late test: 332019 · Missed or late test: 332019 · Missed or late test: 332019 · Missed or late test: 332019 · Missed or late test: 332019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Missed or late test: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
92% missed or late test · 728% notice or report · 6

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 11 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.8 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.4 ppb
1.2 ppb
1.2 ppb
1 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-10-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-10-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-10-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2024-01-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-01-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2023-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  14. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  16. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  17. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  18. 2019-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  19. 2019-11-01Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2019-10-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2019-10-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2019-10-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2019-10-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2019-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2019-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
Show the other 51 entries
  1. 2019-07-01Chlorine ×3Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  3. 2019-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  4. 2019-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2019-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2019-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2019-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2019-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2019-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2019-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2019-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2019-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2019-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2019-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2019-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2019-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2019-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2019-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2019-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2019-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2019-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2019-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2019-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2019-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2019-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  26. 2018-04-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  27. 2018-04-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  28. 2018-04-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  29. 2018-04-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  30. 2018-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  31. 2018-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  32. 2018-01-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  33. 2018-01-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  34. 2018-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  35. 2018-01-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  36. 2018-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  37. 2017-11-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  38. 2017-10-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  39. 2017-09-14E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  40. 2016-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  41. 2016-10-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  42. 2016-10-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  43. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  44. 2016-04-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  45. 2014-01-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  46. 2014-01-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  47. 2014-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  48. 2014-01-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  49. 2014-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  50. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  51. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served19,600
Service connections7,850
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityPoint Pleasant
EPA ZIP on file08742

Areas served

  • Ocean County

Reading this record

Point Pleasant Water Department is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 19,600 people in Point Pleasant, 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.