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Lake Lenape Water Co

What EPA’s and CDC’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
1,250 people
Connections
340
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Andover Twp., NJ
County
Sussex
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

07860

The short answer

2 results are above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the health goal. 3 health-based violations since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 1999 to 2024.

Uranium, nitrate, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and arsenic: New Jersey’s yearly averages per water system, as CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network publishes them, 2020 to 2023, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Chromium (total) and fluoride: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from March 6, 2015 to July 24, 2018. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal2

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

8.4ppb

90th percentile, 2022 to 2024

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 8.4 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

1.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2021

2021 average: 1.0 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.0 ppb, in 2020: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. In 2021, the latest year on file, it averaged 1.0 ppb.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits5

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

3.0ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.0 ppm, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 3.4 ppm, in 2017.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

6.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2015 to 2018

Averaged by year, the highest was 6.7 ppb, in 2018, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

3.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.8 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2023, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 3.7 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.063ppm

Highest yearly average, 2015 to 2018

2018: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.063 ppm, in 2015, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. Its highest single sample was 0.068 ppm. In 2018, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.2 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2023, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 2.5 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
One compound tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Revised Total Coliform RuleColiform or E. coli results required a detailed review of the system, and it or its fixes were not done on time.EPA: Treatment Technique, Level 2 Assessment (RTCR)Dec. 15, 2022—Resolved
Revised Total Coliform RuleColiform or E. coli results required a detailed review of the system, and it or its fixes were not done on time.EPA: Treatment Technique, Level 2 Assessment (RTCR)Aug. 5, 2022—Resolved
Revised Total Coliform RuleColiform results required a check of the system, and the check or its fixes were not done on time.EPA: Treatment Technique, Level 1 Assessment (RTCR)Sept. 23, 2021—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 38 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Uranium, nitrate, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM) and arsenic results here are New Jersey’s yearly averages as CDC publishes them, from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Chromium (total) and fluoride come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Lake Lenape Water Co’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; CDC’s yearly averages for New Jersey cover 2020 to 2023; EPA’s compliance samples are from March 6, 2015 to July 24, 2018.

Testing your own tap

Lake Lenape Water Co’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab New Jersey certifies.

The 3 labs New Jersey certifies closest to the area Lake Lenape Water Co serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

All 89 certified labs for New Jersey

Sources

PWSID NJ1902003. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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