Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID NJ1615312

Upper Greenwood Lk Elem School

Serves 402 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentGlenwood, New JerseyServes a school or daycare
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Lead service line inventory. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2004: 19 violations. 4 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 12 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-01-01.

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

4Over the limit
1Treatment lapse1 open
12Missed or late test1 open
2Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 85% 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

2004 · Missed or late test: 12005 · Missed or late test: 22005 · Missed or late test: 220052006 · Missed or late test: 22006 · Missed or late test: 2201020152016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Over the limit: 22017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Over the limit: 22017 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 52025 · Missed or late test: 52025 · Missed or late test: 52025 · Missed or late test: 52025 · Missed or late test: 52025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
21% over the limit · 45% treatment lapse · 163% missed or late test · 1211% notice or report · 2

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×+Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U2017-04-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 21.10 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.4×)2017-01-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 24.57 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.6×)2016-10-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 23.36 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.6×)2016-07-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 17.27 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.2×)
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.

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 9 results on file · action level 15 ppb

588 ppb
9.5 ppb
9.4 ppb
8.1 ppb
7.5 ppb
4.7 ppb
1.4 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (3)

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  3. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-01-01Temperature (Centigrade)Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-01-01Alkalinity, TotalWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-01-01pHWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-01-01Conductivity @ 25 C Umhos/CmWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-01-01CalciumWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  7. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  8. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  9. 2020-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  10. 2017-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 21.10 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  11. 2017-03-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2017-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 24.57 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  13. 2016-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 23.36 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  14. 2016-07-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 17.27 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  15. 2006-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  16. 2006-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  17. 2005-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  18. 2005-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  19. 2004-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served402
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityGlenwood
EPA ZIP on file07418

Areas served

  • Passaic County

Reading this record

Upper Greenwood Lk Elem School is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 402 people in Glenwood, 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.