Nj American Water - Raritan, NJ Water Quality
Nj American Water - Raritan: EPA violation history, explained
Nj American Water - Raritan has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 615,430, over 205,035 connections.
Nj American Water - Raritan's record against the rest of the country
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, Nj American Water - Raritan ranks 7,076th by violation burden (45th percentile) - 432 violations total, 1 health-based.
Against the NJ average
Nj American Water - Raritan's 1 health-based violations sit within the NJ average of 5.2, across 273 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
Nj American Water - Raritan's most recent violation on record is dated 2019-01-05, with the most recent health-based one dated 2010-01-09. Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
The concern categories on record
Nj American Water - Raritan'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: Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
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 Nj American Water - Raritan's record does not cover
Nj American Water - Raritan's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for Nj American Water - Raritan - 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.