Community Water System · PWS NJ1347001
Lake Como Water Dept
Operator location Lake Como, New Jersey - 22% of 72 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); surface water source; 3,000 served per SDWIS.
- 3,000
- People served (this PWS)
- 72
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 16
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Lake Como Water Dept standing, mid SDWIS violation third
22% of 72 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 22% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #10,643 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Lake Como Water Dept lands in the middle third by violation volume (72), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 3,000 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 22% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #10,643 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #262 of 689
- Population · NJ
- 72
- Total EPA violations on record
- 22%
- 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
- 1,084
- County
- Monmouth
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 16
- Monitoring Violations
- 45
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 16 | 2019 |
| TTHM | MR | 15 | 2019 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 12 | 2007 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 8 | 2018 |
| Public Notice | Other | 6 | 2019 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2018 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 2 | 2018 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1985 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1985 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1985 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1985 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1985 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1985 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1985 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Lake Como Water Dept has 72 recorded EPA violations, 66% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 34% carry more. 22% of this system's own violations are health-based (16 of 72), and it ranks #10,643 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)
72 Around the middle fewer violations than 34% 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 Lake Como Water Dept
16 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NJ1347001.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · NJ DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
72 violations · 3,000 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 Lake Como Water Dept
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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