Is TRENTON WATER WORKS's water safe to drink?
TRENTON WATER WORKS had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. 217,000 people get their water from it, across 62,403 connections.
TRENTON WATER WORKS's record against the rest of the country
161 total violations and 35 health-based ones put TRENTON WATER WORKS at the 97th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 450 of 12,903.
Against the NJ average
TRENTON WATER WORKS's 35 health-based violations sit above 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
TRENTON WATER WORKS's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-05-09, with the most recent health-based one dated 2024-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
The concern categories on record
TRENTON WATER WORKS'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: Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: CARBON, TOTAL
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What TRENTON WATER WORKS's record does not cover
Everything on this page is TRENTON WATER WORKS'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 TRENTON WATER WORKS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 450th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.