WILDWOOD CITY WATER DEPARTMENT: EPA violation history, explained
WILDWOOD CITY WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 218,472 people through 17,929 service connections.
WILDWOOD CITY WATER DEPARTMENT's record against the rest of the country
58 total violations and 6 health-based ones put WILDWOOD CITY WATER DEPARTMENT at the 77th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,976 of 12,903.
How WILDWOOD CITY WATER DEPARTMENT compares within NJ
NJ's 270 covered systems average 5.3 health-based violations each; WILDWOOD CITY WATER DEPARTMENT carries 6, 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 WILDWOOD CITY WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 1994-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
WILDWOOD CITY WATER DEPARTMENT'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
WILDWOOD CITY WATER DEPARTMENT's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and WILDWOOD CITY WATER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,976th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.