DrinkingWaterCheck

Is TOTOWA W DEPT's water safe to drink?

TOTOWA W DEPT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 10,804 people through 3,900 service connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, TOTOWA W DEPT ranks 7,395th by violation burden (43th percentile) - 58 violations total, 1 health-based.

How TOTOWA W DEPT compares within NJ

TOTOWA W DEPT'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 TOTOWA W DEPT is from 2026-06-12 (health-based: 2006-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

TOTOWA W DEPT'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:

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

Everything on this page is TOTOWA W DEPT'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 58 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.