Is SOUTH ORANGE WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
SOUTH ORANGE WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 16,964, over 4,621 connections.
How this compares nationally
SOUTH ORANGE WATER DEPARTMENT has 32 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,627th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 41th percentile nationally.
Against the NJ average
SOUTH ORANGE WATER DEPARTMENT's 1 health-based violations sit within the NJ average of 5.3, across 270 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
SOUTH ORANGE WATER DEPARTMENT's most recent violation on record is dated 2016-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 1992-01-08. Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
The concern categories on record
SOUTH ORANGE 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: 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 SOUTH ORANGE WATER DEPARTMENT's record does not cover
Everything on this page is SOUTH ORANGE WATER DEPARTMENT's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 32 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.