Community Water System · PWS NJ1013001
Hampton Borough Water Depart
Operator location Califon, New Jersey - 5% of 74 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 1,401 served per SDWIS.
- 1,401
- People served (this PWS)
- 74
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Hampton Borough Water Depart standing, mid SDWIS violation third
5% of 74 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 5% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #16,517 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Hampton Borough Water Depart lands in the middle third by violation volume (74), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,401 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 5% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #16,517 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #361 of 689
- Population · NJ
- 74
- Total EPA violations on record
- 5%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 512
- County
- Hunterdon
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 58
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 11 | 2021 |
| TTHM | MR | 11 | 2021 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 6 | 2023 |
| Nitrate | MR | 5 | 1999 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2011 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Asbestos | MR | 4 | 2011 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| Chlorine | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 2 | 2023 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1988 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Hampton Borough Water Depart has 74 recorded EPA violations, 66% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 33% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 74), and it ranks #16,517 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
74 Around the middle fewer violations than 33% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Hampton Borough Water Depart
4 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NJ1013001.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · NJ DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
74 violations · 1,401 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Hampton Borough Water Depart
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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