Sparta Twp Water Utility - Lake Mohawk, NJ Water Quality

Is Sparta Twp Water Utility - Lake Mohawk's water safe to drink?

Sparta Twp Water Utility - Lake Mohawk's record against the rest of the country

306 total violations and 8 health-based ones put Sparta Twp Water Utility - Lake Mohawk at the 82th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,279 of 12,903.

How Sparta Twp Water Utility - Lake Mohawk compares within NJ

Among the 273 NJ systems in this dataset, the average is 5.2 health-based violations - Sparta Twp Water Utility - Lake Mohawk's 8 is above that. 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 Sparta Twp Water Utility - Lake Mohawk is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 2024-02-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

Sparta Twp Water Utility - Lake Mohawk'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:

• Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule
• Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
• Radionuclides - flagged from: Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U

The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What this data is and is not

Everything on this page is Sparta Twp Water Utility - Lake Mohawk's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and Sparta Twp Water Utility - Lake Mohawk's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,279th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.