Community Water System · PWSID NJ0514001

Wildwood City Water Department

Serves 218,472 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentRio Grande, New Jersey
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On record since 2011: 47 violations. 43 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

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
43Missed or late test
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 95% 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

200520102011 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12016 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 162020 · Missed or late test: 162020 · Missed or late test: 162020 · Missed or late test: 162020 · Missed or late test: 162020 · Missed or late test: 162020 · Missed or late test: 162020 · Missed or late test: 162020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 182022 · Missed or late test: 182022 · Missed or late test: 182022 · Missed or late test: 182022 · Missed or late test: 182022 · Missed or late test: 182022 · Missed or late test: 182022 · Missed or late test: 182022 · Missed or late test: 182025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
91% missed or late test · 439% notice or report · 4

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

11.6 ppb
5 ppb
3.4 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-11-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2022-11-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2022-10-01Ethylene DibromideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2022-10-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2022-10-01Ethylene Dibromide ×6Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2022-10-011, 2-Dibromo-3-Chloropropane ×6Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2022-02-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2022-02-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2021-05-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  13. 2021-05-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2020-09-25E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  15. 2020-08-11Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  16. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2020-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2020-01-011, 2-Dibromo-3-Chloropropane ×7Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2020-01-01Ethylene Dibromide ×7Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2019-11-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2019-11-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2019-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  24. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served218,472
Service connections17,929
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityRio Grande
EPA ZIP on file08242

Areas served

  • Cape May County

Reading this record

Wildwood City Water Department is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 218,472 people in Rio Grande, 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.