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Is Margate City, NJ tap water safe?

Margate City Water Department serves Margate City, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and CDC’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Margate City Water Department serves Margate City. In EPA’s and CDC’s records it has 1 result above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lead at 1.4 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Margate City Water Department’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Margate City

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 Margate City, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Cape Environmental Testing Laboratory

    Cape May Court House, NJ · about 23 miles

    (609) 463-0077

  • Vineland Environmental Laboratories LLC

    Vineland, NJ · about 26 miles

    (856) 692-6800

  • Eurofins Philadelphia - Vineland

    Vineland, NJ · about 29 miles

    (215) 355-3900

All 89 certified labs for New Jersey

ZIP codes in Margate City

Which ZIP codes are in Margate City: 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 Margate City

Other towns in Atlantic County with a page of their own.

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