Is LONGPORT WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
LONGPORT WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 10,777, over 1,192 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
14 total violations and 3 health-based ones put LONGPORT WATER DEPARTMENT at the 60th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,146 of 12,903.
How LONGPORT WATER DEPARTMENT compares within NJ
NJ's 270 covered systems average 5.3 health-based violations each; LONGPORT WATER DEPARTMENT carries 3, not more than typical for the state. 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 LONGPORT WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2017-01-01 (health-based: 1996-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
LONGPORT WATER DEPARTMENT'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)
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Selenium; Thallium, Total
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
LONGPORT WATER DEPARTMENT'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 - 3 health-based violations on file for LONGPORT WATER DEPARTMENT - 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.