Community Water System · PWS NJ1920001
Stillwater Water District 1
Operator location Budd Lake, New Jersey - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 1,024 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,200 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,200
- People served (this PWS)
- 1,024
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 38
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Stillwater Water District 1 standing, high SDWIS violation third
1,024 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 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #17,898 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Stillwater Water District 1 sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (1,024), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,200 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #17,898 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #386 of 689
- Population · NJ
- 1,024
- Total EPA violations on record
- 4%
- 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
- 402
- County
- Sussex
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 34
- Monitoring Violations
- 962
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 93 | 2025 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 93 | 2025 |
| Nitrate | MR | 44 | 2022 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 28 | 2024 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 27 | 2024 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| Benzene | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| Toluene | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| Styrene | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 23 | 2020 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 21 | 2008 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 20 | 2018 |
| Arsenic | MR | 18 | 2017 |
| E. COLI | MR | 18 | 2021 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Stillwater Water District 1 has 1,024 recorded EPA violations, 99% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 1% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (38 of 1,024), and it ranks #17,898 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)
1,024 Higher than most more violations than 99% 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 Stillwater Water District 1
1,024 violations on record for NJ1920001; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · NJ DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
1,024 violations · 1,200 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 Stillwater Water District 1
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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