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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 thems health-based - ranking it 5,786th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 55th percentile nationally.

Against the NJ average

Among the 270 NJ systems in this dataset, the average is 5.3 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:

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.