Transient Non-Community · PWSID NJ1907309

The Circle Restaurant

Serves 52 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Public/PrivateNewton, New Jersey
Nothing open right now.

On record since 2015: 6 violations. 3 over the limit · 2 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-01-01.

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

3Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
2Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 59% 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

200520102015 · Over the limit: 120152016 · Over the limit: 12016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 120202024 · Over the limit: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
50% over the limit · 333% missed or late test · 217% notice or report · 1

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Nitrate2024-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 14.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.4×)2016-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2015-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 11.50 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.1×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 14.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2016-08-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2016-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2016-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2015-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 11.50 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served52
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPublic/Private
StatusActive
CityNewton
EPA ZIP on file07860

Areas served

  • Sussex County

Reading this record

The Circle Restaurant is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 52 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.