Community Water System · PWSID NJ1223001

South River W Dept

Serves 16,000 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentSouth River, New Jersey
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2011: 28 violations. 6 treatment lapses · 14 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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
6Treatment lapse
14Missed or late test
8Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 91% 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: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 22023 · Treatment lapse: 22023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Treatment lapse: 32025 · Treatment lapse: 32025 · Treatment lapse: 32025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · 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.
21% treatment lapse · 650% missed or late test · 1429% notice or report · 8

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 14 results on file · action level 15 ppb

5.5 ppb
5.5 ppb
4 ppb
3.1 ppb
2.7 ppb
2.5 ppb
2.1 ppb
1.8 ppb
1.5 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

1.8 mg/L

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-05-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  2. 2025-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-05-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2025-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  5. 2025-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2025-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  8. 2024-12-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2024-12-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2024-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-02-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2023-12-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2023-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  15. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2023-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  18. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  19. 2022-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial, Follow-up, or Routine Source Water M/RBack in compliance
  20. 2021-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  21. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2020-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  23. 2019-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  24. 2019-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  25. 2019-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
Show the other 3 entries
  1. 2016-12-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2016-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served16,000
Service connections4,245
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CitySouth River
EPA ZIP on file08882

Areas served

  • Middlesex County

Reading this record

South River W Dept is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 16,000 people in South River, 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.