Community Water System · PWSID NJ1613002

Wanaque W Dept.

Serves 10,266 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentWanaque, New Jersey
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 2004: 63 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 55 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-08-01.

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
3Treatment lapse
55Missed or late test1 open
5Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 97% 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: 12005201020152018 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 492020 · Missed or late test: 492020 · Missed or late test: 492020 · Missed or late test: 492020 · Missed or late test: 492020 · Missed or late test: 492020 · Missed or late test: 492020 · Missed or late test: 492020 · Missed or late test: 492020 · Missed or late test: 492020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 22023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 32025
One square ≈ 5 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% treatment lapse · 387% missed or late test · 558% notice or report · 5

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 11 results on file · action level 15 ppb

8.9 ppb
8.4 ppb
6.4 ppb
6 ppb
5.8 ppb
5.3 ppb
4.4 ppb
4 ppb
3.8 ppb
3.8 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2024-03-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  2. 2022-07-22Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  2. 2024-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-03-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  4. 2024-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2023-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2023-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2022-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  9. 2022-07-22Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherOpen
  10. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2021-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2020-10-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2020-10-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  15. 2020-06-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  16. 2020-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2020-04-01Chlorine ×2Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2020-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2020-01-01Styrene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2020-01-01Ethylbenzene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2020-01-01Toluene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2020-01-01Benzene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2020-01-01Chlorobenzene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2020-01-01Tetrachloroethylene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2020-01-011,1,2-Trichloroethane ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 16 entries
  1. 2020-01-01Trichloroethylene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2020-01-011,2-Dichloropropane ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2020-01-01Carbon tetrachloride ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2020-01-011,1,1-Trichloroethane ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2020-01-011,2-Dichloroethane ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2020-01-01trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2020-01-011,1-Dichloroethylene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2020-01-01Vinyl chloride ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2020-01-01p-Dichlorobenzene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2020-01-01o-Dichlorobenzene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2020-01-01Dichloromethane ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2020-01-01Xylenes, Total ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2020-01-01cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2020-01-011,2,4-Trichlorobenzene ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2018-03-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  16. 2004-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served10,266
Service connections3,668
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityWanaque
EPA ZIP on file07465

Areas served

  • Passaic County

Reading this record

Wanaque W Dept. is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 10,266 people in Wanaque, 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.