Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID NJ0435375

Waterford Elementary School

Serves 481 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentWaterford Works, New JerseyServes a school or daycare
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 2005: 13 violations. 7 over the limit · 4 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-01.

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

7Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
4Missed or late test1 open
2Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 78% 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: 12005201020152016 · Over the limit: 12017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
54% over the limit · 731% missed or late test · 415% 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 U2018-04-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 73.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (4.9×)2018-01-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 61.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (4.1×)2017-10-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 170.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (11.3×)2017-07-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 37.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (2.5×)2017-04-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 35.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (2.3×)2017-01-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 31.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (2.1×)2016-10-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 19.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.3×)
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 11 results on file · action level 15 ppb

6 ppb
6 ppb
4.4 ppb
4.3 ppb
3.9 ppb
3.9 ppb
3.5 ppb
3.1 ppb
3 ppb
2 ppb
1.6 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  2. 2020-01-18Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  2. 2023-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  3. 2020-01-18Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2018-10-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  6. 2018-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 73.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  7. 2018-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 61.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  8. 2017-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 170.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  9. 2017-07-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 37.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  10. 2017-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 35.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  11. 2017-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 31.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  12. 2016-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 19.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  13. 2005-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served481
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityWaterford Works
EPA ZIP on file08089

Areas served

  • Camden County

Reading this record

Waterford Elementary School is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 481 people in Waterford Works, 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.