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Is Highland Lakes, NJ tap water safe?

5 utilities serve Highland Lakes, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and CDC’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

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The short answer

2 of the 5 utilities serving Highland Lakes have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and CDC’s records: Veolia Water New Jersey Vernon Valley and Veolia Water New Jersey Sunset Ridge.

Veolia Water New Jersey Highland Lakes, which serves the most people here, has 3 results above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 4.2 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Highland Lakes’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Veolia Water New Jersey Highland Lakes’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Highland Lakes

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab New Jersey certifies.

The 3 labs New Jersey certifies closest to Highland Lakes, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Environmental Laboratory Services, LLC

    Ringwood, NJ · about 13 miles

    (973) 728-8044

  • Well Qualified LLC

    Lafayette, NJ · about 13 miles

    (973) 362-1306

  • Advanced Water Technology LLC

    Sparta, NJ · about 13 miles

    (800) 440-8265

All 89 certified labs for New Jersey

ZIP codes in Highland Lakes

Which ZIP codes are in Highland Lakes: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: NJDEP Office of Quality Assurance, certified drinking water labs; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Highland Lakes

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