Transient Non-Community · PWSID NJ1920301

Swartswood State Park

Serves 325 peopleGroundwaterOwner: StateNewton, New Jersey
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 2019: 8 violations. 1 over the limit · 4 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-12-26.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
4Missed or late test2 open
3Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 67% 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

2005201020152019 · Notice or report: 120202023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Over the limit: 12024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
13% over the limit · 150% missed or late test · 438% notice or report · 3

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

Open now (3)

  1. 2024-12-26E. Coli ×2Monitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  2. 2024-10-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-12-26E. Coli ×2Monitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  2. 2024-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-10-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  4. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2023-07-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  6. 2023-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2019-07-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance

System details

Population served325
Service connections15
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerState
StatusActive
CityNewton
EPA ZIP on file07860

Areas served

  • Sussex County

Reading this record

Swartswood State Park is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 325 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.