Is NETCONG WATER DEPT's water safe to drink?

NETCONG WATER DEPT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 3,342 people get their water from it, across 1,510 connections.

NETCONG WATER DEPT's record against the rest of the country

NETCONG WATER DEPT has 97 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,254th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 44th percentile nationally.

How NETCONG WATER DEPT compares within NJ

Among the 270 NJ systems in this dataset, the average is 5.3 health-based violations - NETCONG WATER DEPT'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 NETCONG WATER DEPT is from 2025-01-01 (health-based: 2013-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

NETCONG WATER 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)

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

This is what NETCONG WATER DEPT reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and NETCONG WATER DEPT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,254th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.