Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID NJ1922315

Vernon Twp High School

Serves 1,714 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentVernon, New JerseyServes a school or daycare
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 1994: 19 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 15 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-09-11.

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
1Treatment lapse
15Missed or late test
3Notice 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

1994 · Missed or late test: 1199520002005 · Missed or late test: 120052010 · Missed or late test: 1201020152018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 620202022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% treatment lapse · 179% missed or late test · 1516% notice or report · 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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

4.7 ppb
4.3 ppb
2.1 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2024-09-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-09-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  2. 2024-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-11-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  4. 2023-10-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2022-09-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2020-10-01Chlorine ×3Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2020-09-11Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  9. 2020-01-01Chlorine ×3Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2019-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2018-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  12. 2018-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2010-07-24E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  14. 2005-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  15. 1994-01-02Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,714
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityVernon
EPA ZIP on file07462

Areas served

  • Sussex County

Reading this record

Vernon Twp High School is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,714 people in Vernon, 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.