Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS NJ1924364
Quick Chek Store 43 Wantage
Operator location Wantage, New Jersey - 40% of 25 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,213 served per SDWIS.
- 1,213
- People served (this PWS)
- 25
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 10
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Quick Chek Store 43 Wantage standing, mid SDWIS violation third
40% of 25 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 40% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #17,707 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Quick Chek Store 43 Wantage lands in the middle third by violation volume (25), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,213 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 40% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #17,707 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #378 of 689
- Population · NJ
- 25
- Total EPA violations on record
- 40%
- 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
- Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 1
- County
- Sussex
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 5
- Monitoring Violations
- 10
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 5
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| Nitrate | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MCL | 5 | 2020 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 5 | 2021 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Quick Chek Store 43 Wantage has 25 recorded EPA violations, 37% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 62% carry more. 40% of this system's own violations are health-based (10 of 25), and it ranks #17,707 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)
25 Lower than most fewer violations than 62% 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 Quick Chek Store 43 Wantage
10 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NJ1924364.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · NJ DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
25 violations · 1,213 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 Quick Chek Store 43 Wantage
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