What's in WALDWICK WATER DEPT's water?
WALDWICK WATER 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 10,208 people through 3,569 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, WALDWICK WATER DEPT ranks 5,633th by violation burden (56th percentile) - 418 violations total, 2 health-baseds.
How WALDWICK WATER DEPT compares within NJ
NJ's 270 covered systems average 5.3 health-based violations each; WALDWICK WATER DEPT carries 2, not more than typical for the state. 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 WALDWICK WATER DEPT is from 2025-01-01 (health-based: 2007-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
WALDWICK WATER 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)
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: Trichloroethylene
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 WALDWICK WATER DEPT'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 WALDWICK WATER DEPT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,633th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.