Is VENTNOR CITY WATER & SEWER UTILITY's water safe to drink?
VENTNOR CITY WATER & SEWER UTILITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 22,150 people through 4,635 service connections.
How this compares nationally
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, VENTNOR CITY WATER & SEWER UTILITY ranks 2,582th by violation burden (80th percentile) - 72 violations total, 7 health-baseds.
How VENTNOR CITY WATER & SEWER UTILITY compares within NJ
Among the 270 NJ systems in this dataset, the average is 5.3 health-based violations - VENTNOR CITY WATER & SEWER UTILITY's 7 is above that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for VENTNOR CITY WATER & SEWER UTILITY is from 2023-01-07 (health-based: 2013-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
VENTNOR CITY WATER & SEWER UTILITY'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
This is what VENTNOR CITY WATER & SEWER UTILITY reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and VENTNOR CITY WATER & SEWER UTILITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,582th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.