AQUA NJ - BLACKWOOD: EPA violation history, explained
AQUA NJ - BLACKWOOD has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 44,396 people through 14,281 service connections.
AQUA NJ - BLACKWOOD's record against the rest of the country
62 total violations and 1 health-based ones put AQUA NJ - BLACKWOOD at the 43th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,372 of 12,903.
How AQUA NJ - BLACKWOOD compares within NJ
NJ's 270 covered systems average 5.3 health-based violations each; AQUA NJ - BLACKWOOD carries 1, not more than typical for the state. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for AQUA NJ - BLACKWOOD is from 2025-10-10 (health-based: 2020-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
AQUA NJ - BLACKWOOD's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Surface Water Treatment Rule
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what AQUA NJ - BLACKWOOD reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and AQUA NJ - BLACKWOOD's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,372th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.