Transient Non-Community · PWSID NJ1922313

Sussex County Library

Serves 105 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentNewton, New Jersey
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On record since 2018: 3 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 1 missed or late test. Most recent began 2019-10-01.

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
2Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 38% 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

2005201020152018 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
67% treatment lapse · 233% missed or late test · 1

Across New Jersey, 74% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% are water over a limit.

Every violation on record

  1. 2019-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2019-01-07Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  3. 2018-12-10Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance

System details

Population served105
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityNewton
EPA ZIP on file07860

Areas served

  • Sussex County

Reading this record

Sussex County Library is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 105 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.