DrinkingWaterCheck

BELLMAWR WATER DEPT: EPA violation history, explained

BELLMAWR WATER DEPT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 9,522, over 2,815 connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

BELLMAWR WATER DEPT has 11 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,156th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 37th percentile nationally.

How BELLMAWR WATER DEPT compares within NJ

Among the 270 NJ systems in this dataset, the average is 5.3 health-based violations - BELLMAWR WATER DEPT's 1 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for BELLMAWR WATER DEPT is from 2025-01-04 (health-based: 1991-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

BELLMAWR WATER DEPT'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:

The most severe category on record is synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / vocs, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What this data is and is not

BELLMAWR WATER DEPT's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and BELLMAWR WATER DEPT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,156th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.