PUBLIC WORKS BLDG

Water Quality Snapshot: PUBLIC WORKS BLDG

PUBLIC WORKS BLDG is a local-owned non-transient non-community water system that delivers drinking water to 65 residents in BAYVILLE, New Jersey (Ocean County) through 1 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 501 total violations for this system , of which 6 (1%) are health-based — meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 493 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2023.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Lead and Copper Rule, recorded in 23 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. PUBLIC WORKS BLDG's 501 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.