MT OLIVE TWP TINC FARM

Water Quality Snapshot: MT OLIVE TWP TINC FARM

MT OLIVE TWP TINC FARM is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 597 residents in BUDD LAKE, New Jersey (Morris County) through 199 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 705 total violations for this system , of which 16 (2%) are health-based — meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 664 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2025.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Lead and Copper Rule, recorded in 52 violations (MR). This system has not yet been sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program, so no PFAS detection data is available here.

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. MT OLIVE TWP TINC FARM's 705 violations sit above the New Jersey average. Statewide, 208 of 264 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (78.8%). All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.