Community Water System · PWSID NJ1614001

Township of Wayne

Serves 55,000 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentWayne, New Jersey

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On record since 2014: 11 violations. 7 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2021-07-01.

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

0Treatment lapse

7Missed or late test

4Notice or report

More violations on record than 75% 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

One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.

64% missed or late test · 736% notice or report · 4

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 10 results on file · action level 15 ppb

4.1 ppb

3.5 ppb

3.2 ppb

1.6 ppb

1.4 ppb

0.86 ppb

0 ppb

Every violation on record

2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
2018-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
2018-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
2018-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
2016-12-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2016-12-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2016-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
2016-05-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served	55,000
Service connections	18,000
Water source	Surface Water Purchased
System type	Community Water System
Owner	Local Government
Status	Active
City	Wayne
EPA ZIP on file	07470

Areas served

Passaic County

Reading this record

Township of Wayne is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 55,000 people in Wayne, 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.