Community Water System · PWSID NJ0220001

Veolia Water New Jersey Franklin Lakes

Serves 5,038 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: PrivateHaworth, New Jersey
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On record since 2005: 3 violations. 3 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2020-12-01.

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
3Missed 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

2005 · Missed or late test: 12005201020152020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% missed or late test · 3

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 12 results on file · action level 15 ppb

14 ppb
10 ppb
9 ppb
7.4 ppb
7.1 ppb
7 ppb
6.2 ppb
4.8 ppb
4.5 ppb
3.8 ppb
3.4 ppb
2.8 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2020-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  2. 2020-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  3. 2005-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served5,038
Service connections1,948
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityHaworth
EPA ZIP on file07641

Areas served

  • Bergen County

Reading this record

Veolia Water New Jersey Franklin Lakes is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 5,038 people in Haworth, 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.