POINT PLEASANT BEACH WATER DEPARTMENT: EPA violation history, explained
POINT PLEASANT BEACH WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 12,000 people through 2,950 service connections.
How this compares nationally
23 total violations and 1 health-based ones put POINT PLEASANT BEACH WATER DEPARTMENT at the 40th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,764 of 12,903.
How POINT PLEASANT BEACH WATER DEPARTMENT compares within NJ
POINT PLEASANT BEACH WATER DEPARTMENT's 1 health-based violations sit within the NJ average of 5.3, across 270 systems statewide. 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 POINT PLEASANT BEACH WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2026-01-01 (health-based: 2018-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
POINT PLEASANT BEACH WATER DEPARTMENT'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
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
POINT PLEASANT BEACH WATER DEPARTMENT'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. Between the utility's meter and POINT PLEASANT BEACH WATER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,764th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.