Is MARGATE CITY WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
MARGATE CITY WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 23,500 people through 7,200 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
39 total violations and 1 health-based ones put MARGATE CITY WATER DEPARTMENT at the 42th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,533 of 12,903.
How MARGATE CITY WATER DEPARTMENT compares within NJ
Among the 270 NJ systems in this dataset, the average is 5.3 health-based violations - MARGATE CITY WATER DEPARTMENT's 1 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for MARGATE CITY WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2016-01-01 (health-based: 1988-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
MARGATE CITY 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:
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Cadmium
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
Everything on this page is MARGATE CITY WATER DEPARTMENT'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 MARGATE CITY WATER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,533th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.