What's in NJ AMERICAN WATER - PENNS GROVE's water?
NJ AMERICAN WATER - PENNS GROVE has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 14,406, over 4,629 connections.
How this compares nationally
NJ AMERICAN WATER - PENNS GROVE has 21 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,803th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 40th percentile nationally.
How NJ AMERICAN WATER - PENNS GROVE compares within NJ
NJ AMERICAN WATER - PENNS GROVE's 1 health-based violations sit within the NJ average of 5.3, across 270 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for NJ AMERICAN WATER - PENNS GROVE is from 2023-11-10 (health-based: 1992-01-03). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
NJ AMERICAN WATER - PENNS GROVE'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 NJ AMERICAN WATER - PENNS GROVE 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. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for NJ AMERICAN WATER - PENNS GROVE - 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.