Gloucester City W Dept, NJ Water Quality
Gloucester City W Dept: EPA violation history, explained
Gloucester City W Dept has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 12,460 people get their water from it, across 4,115 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Gloucester City W Dept has 91 violations on record in total, 2 of them health-based - ranking it 5,786th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 55th percentile nationally.
Against the NJ average
Among the 273 NJ systems in this dataset, the average is 5.2 health-based violations - Gloucester City W Dept's 2 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
Gloucester City W Dept's most recent violation on record is dated 2022-06-12, with the most recent health-based one dated 1996-01-12. Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
The concern categories on record
Gloucester City W 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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
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 Gloucester City W Dept's record does not cover
Everything on this page is Gloucester City W Dept's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 2 health-based violations on file for Gloucester City W Dept - 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.