Is NJ AMERICAN WATER - SALEM CITY's water safe to drink?
NJ AMERICAN WATER - SALEM CITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 6,199, over 1,816 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
NJ AMERICAN WATER - SALEM CITY has 134 violations on record in total, 7 of thems health-based - ranking it 2,554th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 80th percentile nationally.
How NJ AMERICAN WATER - SALEM CITY compares within NJ
NJ's 270 covered systems average 5.3 health-based violations each; NJ AMERICAN WATER - SALEM CITY carries 7, more than typical for the state. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for NJ AMERICAN WATER - SALEM CITY is from 2023-01-01 (health-based: 1995-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
NJ AMERICAN WATER - SALEM 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: Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
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 - SALEM CITY 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. Between the utility's meter and NJ AMERICAN WATER - SALEM CITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,554th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.