BUENA BOROUGH MUA: EPA violation history, explained
BUENA BOROUGH MUA has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 4,880 people through 1,576 service connections.
BUENA BOROUGH MUA's record against the rest of the country
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, BUENA BOROUGH MUA ranks 8,878th by violation burden (31th percentile) - 4 violations total, 1 health-based.
How BUENA BOROUGH MUA compares within NJ
Among the 270 NJ systems in this dataset, the average is 5.3 health-based violations - BUENA BOROUGH MUA's 1 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for BUENA BOROUGH MUA is from 2023-01-04 (health-based: 1988-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
BUENA BOROUGH MUA'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:
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Selenium
The most severe category on record is other regulated metals, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
BUENA BOROUGH MUA'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. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for BUENA BOROUGH MUA - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.