What's in MERCHANTVILLE PENNSAUKEN's water?
MERCHANTVILLE PENNSAUKEN has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 47,144 people get their water from it, across 15,010 connections.
How this compares nationally
MERCHANTVILLE PENNSAUKEN has 125 violations on record in total, 8 of thems health-based - ranking it 2,304th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 82th percentile nationally.
Against the NJ average
Among the 270 NJ systems in this dataset, the average is 5.3 health-based violations - MERCHANTVILLE PENNSAUKEN's 8 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
MERCHANTVILLE PENNSAUKEN's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-11-08, with the most recent health-based one dated 1993-01-01. Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
The concern categories on record
MERCHANTVILLE PENNSAUKEN'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:
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: Carbon tetrachloride; Tetrachloroethylene; Trichloroethylene
The most severe category on record is synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / vocs, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What MERCHANTVILLE PENNSAUKEN's record does not cover
Everything on this page is MERCHANTVILLE PENNSAUKEN's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 125 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.