Is SHIP BOTTOM WATER DEPART's water safe to drink?
SHIP BOTTOM WATER DEPART has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 15,000, over 1,675 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
22 total violations and 2 health-based ones put SHIP BOTTOM WATER DEPART at the 52th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,186 of 12,903.
Against the NJ average
SHIP BOTTOM WATER DEPART's 2 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
SHIP BOTTOM WATER DEPART's most recent violation on record is dated 2023-06-12, with the most recent health-based one dated 2007-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
The concern categories on record
SHIP BOTTOM WATER DEPART'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 SHIP BOTTOM WATER DEPART's record does not cover
Everything on this page is SHIP BOTTOM WATER DEPART's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 2 health-based violations on file for SHIP BOTTOM WATER DEPART - 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.