Hammonton Water Dept

Water Quality Snapshot: Hammonton Water Dept

Hammonton Water Dept is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 12,153 residents in Hammonton, New Jersey (Atlantic County) through 3,845 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 723 total violations for this system , of which 147 (20%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 566 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2022.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U, recorded in 90 violations (MCL, health-based). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across New Jersey, EPA tracks 3,428 public water systems serving 9,570,926 people, with 204,988 cumulative violations and 22,229 health-based violations on record. About 95% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 59.8 violations. Statewide, 208 of 264 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (78.8%).

Hammonton Water Dept's 723 violations sit above the New Jersey average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.