Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID TX1013163

Polar Services Center

Serves 65 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateCherry Hill, New Jersey
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Lead service line inventory. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2013: 25 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 17 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-07.

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 lapse1 open
17Missed or late test
7Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 89% 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 · Missed or late test: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Missed or late test: 22014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152017 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% treatment lapse · 168% missed or late test · 1728% notice or report · 7

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 2 results on file · action level 15 ppb

0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (4)

  1. 2025-09-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-05-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  4. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-05-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2025-04-08E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  5. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  6. 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2024-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2023-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2022-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  12. 2021-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2021-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2020-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  15. 2020-10-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  17. 2019-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2017-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  19. 2015-11-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2015-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2014-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  22. 2014-10-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  23. 2014-08-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2013-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2013-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served65
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityCherry Hill
EPA ZIP on file08003-2310

Areas served

  • Harris County

Reading this record

Polar Services Center is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 65 people in Cherry Hill, 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.