Nj American Water - Penns Grove, NJ Water Quality
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 5.2, across 273 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.