Community Water System · PWSID NJ0248001

Ramsey Water Dept

Serves 15,207 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentRamsey, New Jersey
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On record since 2011: 189 violations. 183 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-12-30.

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
183Missed or late test
6Notice or report

More violations on record than 99% 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: 12013 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 262020 · Missed or late test: 262020 · Missed or late test: 262020 · Missed or late test: 262020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 272021 · Missed or late test: 272021 · Missed or late test: 272021 · Missed or late test: 272021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 182022 · Missed or late test: 182022 · Missed or late test: 182023 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 952024 · Missed or late test: 952024 · Missed or late test: 952024 · Missed or late test: 952024 · Missed or late test: 952024 · Missed or late test: 952024 · Missed or late test: 952024 · Missed or late test: 952024 · Missed or late test: 952024 · Missed or late test: 952024 · Missed or late test: 952024 · Missed or late test: 952025
One square ≈ 8 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
97% missed or late test · 1833% 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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

4.6 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  2. 2024-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-07-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-07-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-07-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-07-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-07-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-07-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-07-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-07-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-07-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-07-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2024-07-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-07-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2024-07-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2024-07-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2024-07-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2024-07-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2024-07-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2024-07-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2024-07-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2024-07-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2024-07-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2024-07-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2024-07-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
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  1. 2024-07-01Arsenic ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-07-01Nitrate ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-04-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-04-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-04-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-04-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-04-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-04-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-04-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-04-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-04-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2024-04-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-04-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2024-04-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2024-04-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2024-04-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2024-04-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2024-04-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2024-04-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2024-04-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2024-04-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2024-04-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2024-04-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2024-04-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  26. 2024-04-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  27. 2024-04-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  28. 2024-04-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  29. 2024-04-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  30. 2024-04-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  31. 2024-04-01Nitrate ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  32. 2024-04-01Arsenic ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  33. 2024-04-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  34. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  35. 2024-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  36. 2024-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  37. 2024-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  38. 2024-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  39. 2024-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  40. 2024-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  41. 2024-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  42. 2024-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  43. 2024-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  44. 2024-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  45. 2024-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  46. 2024-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  47. 2024-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  48. 2024-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  49. 2024-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  50. 2024-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  51. 2024-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  52. 2024-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  53. 2024-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  54. 2024-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  55. 2024-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  56. 2024-01-01Nitrate ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  57. 2024-01-01Arsenic ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  58. 2024-01-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  59. 2024-01-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  60. 2024-01-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  61. 2024-01-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  62. 2024-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  63. 2024-01-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  64. 2024-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  65. 2023-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  66. 2023-07-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  67. 2023-07-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  68. 2023-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  69. 2023-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  70. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  71. 2022-10-01Ethylene Dibromide ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  72. 2022-10-011, 2-Dibromo-3-Chloropropane ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  73. 2022-04-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228) ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  74. 2022-04-01Radium-226 ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  75. 2022-04-01Radium-228 ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  76. 2022-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  77. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  78. 2022-01-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  79. 2022-01-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  80. 2022-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  81. 2022-01-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  82. 2022-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  83. 2022-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  84. 2021-10-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  85. 2021-10-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  86. 2021-10-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  87. 2021-10-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  88. 2021-10-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  89. 2021-10-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  90. 2021-10-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  91. 2021-10-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  92. 2021-10-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  93. 2021-10-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  94. 2021-10-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  95. 2021-10-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  96. 2021-10-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  97. 2021-10-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  98. 2021-10-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  99. 2021-10-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  100. 2021-10-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  101. 2021-10-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  102. 2021-10-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  103. 2021-10-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  104. 2021-10-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  105. 2021-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  106. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  107. 2021-03-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  108. 2021-01-01Arsenic ×4Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  109. 2020-07-01Radium-228Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  110. 2020-07-01Radium-226Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  111. 2020-07-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  112. 2020-07-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  113. 2020-07-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  114. 2020-07-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  115. 2020-07-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  116. 2020-07-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  117. 2020-07-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  118. 2020-07-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  119. 2020-07-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  120. 2020-07-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  121. 2020-07-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  122. 2020-07-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  123. 2020-07-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  124. 2020-07-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  125. 2020-07-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  126. 2020-07-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  127. 2020-07-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  128. 2020-07-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  129. 2020-07-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  130. 2020-07-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  131. 2020-07-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  132. 2020-07-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  133. 2020-07-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  134. 2020-07-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  135. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  136. 2019-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  137. 2019-01-01Nitrate ×6Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  138. 2018-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  139. 2018-10-01Arsenic ×3Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  140. 2017-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  141. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  142. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  143. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served15,207
Service connections5,639
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityRamsey
EPA ZIP on file07446

Areas served

  • Bergen County

Reading this record

Ramsey Water Dept is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 15,207 people in Ramsey, 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.