Community Water System · PWS NJ1020001
Milford W Dept
Operator location Milford Boro, New Jersey - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 86 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,453 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,453
- People served (this PWS)
- 86
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 18
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Milford W Dept standing, high SDWIS violation third
86 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 21% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #16,273 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Milford W Dept sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (86), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,453 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 21% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #16,273 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #357 of 689
- Population · NJ
- 86
- Total EPA violations on record
- 21%
- 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
- 567
- County
- Hunterdon
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 18
- Monitoring Violations
- 60
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | MCL | 18 | 2008 |
| Chlorine | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| Arsenic | MR | 7 | 2020 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2020 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 1988 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 1988 |
| Barium | MR | 2 | 1988 |
| Chromium | MR | 2 | 1988 |
| Cadmium | MR | 2 | 1988 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2024 |
| Mercury | MR | 2 | 1988 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 2 | 2020 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 2018 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1988 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Milford W Dept has 86 recorded EPA violations, 70% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 30% carry more. 21% of this system's own violations are health-based (18 of 86), and it ranks #16,273 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)
86 Around the middle fewer violations than 30% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
SDWIS compliance record for Milford W Dept
86 violations on record for NJ1020001; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · NJ DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
86 violations · 1,453 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
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 Milford W Dept
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