Borough of Clayton, NJ Water Quality
Is Borough of Clayton's water safe to drink?
Borough of Clayton's only violations on record are reporting or monitoring lapses, not a contaminant or treatment-technique failure EPA classifies as health-based. Population served: 8,179, over 2,748 connections.
Borough of Clayton's record against the rest of the country
Borough of Clayton has 88 violations on record in total, 0 of them health-based - ranking it 9,424th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 27th percentile nationally.
Against the NJ average
NJ's 273 covered systems average 5.2 health-based violations each; Borough of Clayton carries 0, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
Borough of Clayton's most recent violation on record is dated 2024-01-04. Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What Borough of Clayton's record does not cover
This is what Borough of Clayton 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 Borough of Clayton's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 9,424th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.