High Bridge W Dept, NJ Water Quality
Is High Bridge W Dept's water safe to drink?
High Bridge W Dept has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 3,300 people get their water from it, across 1,472 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
High Bridge W Dept has 76 violations on record in total, 3 of them health-based - ranking it 4,740th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 63th percentile nationally.
How High Bridge W Dept compares within NJ
NJ's 273 covered systems average 5.2 health-based violations each; High Bridge W Dept carries 3, not more than typical for the state. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for High Bridge W Dept is from 2025-06-12 (health-based: 2014-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
High Bridge 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)
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: Trichloroethylene
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 this data is and is not
Everything on this page is High Bridge W Dept's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and High Bridge W Dept's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,740th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.