Drinking water quality · 2025
· Verified
· PWSID NJ1345001
What's in Lakewood, NJ tap water
Only 9 of 27 core regulated contaminants were reported for Lakewood, NJ. What was measured is not clean — but most of the picture is missing.
- !1 contaminant at or above a federal limit — worst is PFOA (Perfluorooctanoic acid) at 1.9x
- !9 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 18 never appear in this report
- ✓No open federal violations
+How this score is calculated
Every system starts at 100. Points come off for measured levels, for the federal violation record, and for how much of the core regulated set the utility actually reported. All three inputs are the utility's own published numbers and EPA's own records.
- −23 contaminants at or above a federal limit
- −0 contaminants within 20% of a limit
- −0 open health-based violations
- −0 open monitoring / reporting violations
- −0 health-based violations resolved in the last 5 years
- −16 core regulated contaminants never reported (9/27)
A 90–100 · B 80–89 · C 70–79 · D 60–69 · F below 60. A system reporting under a third of the core set is capped at C however clean its numbers look — a short report is not a clean bill of health.
Full grading methodology, constant for constant →What to worry about
- PFOA (Perfluorooctanoic acid)1.9× the federal limit7.5 ng/L · limit 4 ng/L
Linked to cancer, liver damage, and immune effects; the EPA set an enforceable limit of 4 parts per trillion.
higher than 80% of U.S. systems
+33 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
| Contaminant | Measured | Federal limit |
|---|---|---|
| Gross Alpha | 8.34 pCi/L | 15 pCi/L |
| Combined Radium | 2.48 pCi/L | 5 pCi/L |
| Chloramine | 1.62 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Chlorite | 0.39 mg/L | 1 mg/L |
| Nitrate | 1.76 mg/L | 10 mg/L |
| Chlorine | 699 ug/L | 4000 ug/L |
| Lead | 0.002 mg/L | 0.015 mg/L |
| Fluoride | 0.52 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Copper | 0.153 mg/L | 1.3 mg/L |
| PFOS | 0.18 ng/L | 4 ng/L |
| Chloride | 119 mg/L | — |
| Sulfate | 29.6 mg/L | — |
| Aluminum | 0.13 mg/L | — |
| Iron | 0.31 mg/L | — |
| Lithium | 3.68 ug/L | — |
| Manganese | 34 ug/L | — |
| Sodium | 69.9 mg/L | — |
| Escherichia coli (E. coli) | 0 | 0 |
| Total Coliform | Not detected % | 0 % |
| Hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acid | 0 ng/L | 10 ng/L |
| Perfluoroheptanoic acid | 0.316 ng/L | — |
| Perfluorohexanesulfonic acid | 0 ng/L | 10 ng/L |
| Perfluorononanoic acid | 0 ng/L | 10 ng/L |
| PFBA | 4.85 ng/L | — |
| Hardness | 140 mg/L | — |
| TOC | 0.71 % | — |
| Radon | 10 | — |
| 1,2,3-TCP | 0.01 ug/L | — |
| Volatile Organic Compounds | 10 | — |
| 6:2 FTS | 0.0068 µg/L | — |
| PFPeA | 4.8 ng/L | — |
| PFBS | 9.2 ng/L | — |
| PFHxA | 4.6 ng/L | — |
What this report doesn't tell you
18 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Lakewood, NJ's data. Absent is not the same as absent-from-the-water — it means nobody published a number.
+Full detail: PFAS testing, water source, historical monitoring, and the federal violation record
PFAS — EPA UCMR5 (2023–2025)
1 PFAS compound above EPA limits in Lakewood, NJ
The EPA finalized the first-ever federal drinking-water limits for six PFAS compounds in April 2024. These numbers come straight from EPA's UCMR5 lab dataset — every U.S. system serving more than 3,300 people tested every PFAS sample at an entry point to its distribution system. PFAS not listed below were either tested and not detected, or not yet sampled.
PFOA (Perfluorooctanoic acid)
● Over EPA limit (1.9×)6:2 FTS
● Detected (no federal limit)PFPeA
● Detected (no federal limit)PFBS
● Detected (no federal limit)PFHxA
● Detected (no federal limit)Where your water comes from · EPA SDWIS
Lakewood, NJ's drinking water comes from ground water, drawn from 51 sources.
Source
- WELL · 11
- SWIMMING RIVER · 2
- ABERDEEN ASR
- GLENDOLA RESERVOIR/WALL TOWNSHIP
- + 36 more
Treatment
- JUMPING BROOK TP
- STRATMORE TP (ABERDEEN)
- SWIMMING RIVER PLANT/COLTS NECK
- + 15 more
Distribution
Also buys water from MARLBORO TOWNSHIP WATER UTILITY DIVISION, PARKWAY WATER COMPANY.
Compliance history
Federal Safe Drinking Water Act violation & enforcement records (EPA SDWIS). A violation is a regulatory determination by the state or EPA — separate from the measured levels above.
- Treatment technique violationHealth-based1 violation on record · most recent Sep 2019resolved
Source: EPA SDWIS / ECHO. View the full federal record on EPA ECHO ↗