Totowa W Dept, NJ Water Quality
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 5.2, across 273 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:
- 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 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.