New Brunswick W Dept, NJ Water Quality
New Brunswick W Dept: EPA violation history, explained
New Brunswick W Dept has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 55,000 people through 8,500 service connections.
How this compares nationally
New Brunswick W Dept has 244 violations on record in total, 46 of them health-based - ranking it 307th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 98th percentile nationally.
Against the NJ average
Among the 273 NJ systems in this dataset, the average is 5.2 health-based violations - New Brunswick W Dept's 46 is above that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
New Brunswick W Dept's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-12, with the most recent health-based one dated 2020-01-01. Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
The concern categories on record
New Brunswick 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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Tthm
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What New Brunswick W Dept's record does not cover
Everything on this page is New Brunswick W Dept'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 244 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.