Lacey Twp Mua

Water Quality Snapshot: Lacey Twp Mua

Lacey Twp Mua is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 29,000 residents in Forked River, New Jersey (Ocean County) through 12,619 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 212 total violations for this system , of which 9 (4%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 170 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 Chlorine, recorded in 30 violations (MR). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

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. Statewide, 208 of 264 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (78.8%).

Lacey Twp Mua's 212 violations sit above the New Jersey average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.