Is NJ AMERICAN WATER - EGG HARBOR CITY's water safe to drink?
NJ AMERICAN WATER - EGG HARBOR CITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 4,300 people get their water from it, across 1,607 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
20 total violations and 1 health-based ones put NJ AMERICAN WATER - EGG HARBOR CITY at the 39th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,835 of 12,903.
How NJ AMERICAN WATER - EGG HARBOR CITY compares within NJ
Among the 270 NJ systems in this dataset, the average is 5.3 health-based violations - NJ AMERICAN WATER - EGG HARBOR CITY's 1 is at or below that. 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 NJ AMERICAN WATER - EGG HARBOR CITY is from 2023-01-01 (health-based: 2001-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
NJ AMERICAN WATER - EGG HARBOR CITY'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
Everything on this page is NJ AMERICAN WATER - EGG HARBOR CITY's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for NJ AMERICAN WATER - EGG HARBOR CITY - 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.