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Is Newark, NJ tap water safe?

Newark Water Department serves Newark, 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

Newark Water Department serves Newark. In EPA’s and CDC’s records it has 1 result above the legal limit, 1 result above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029 and 1 result above the health goal, and 20 health-based violations since 2016.

The worst: Haloacetic acids (HAA5) at 47.5 ppb, above the legal limit.

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 Newark Water Department’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Newark

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

  • Garden State Laboratories Inc.

    Hillside, NJ · about 3 miles

    (908) 688-8900

  • Hillmann Consulting, LLC

    Union, NJ · about 5 miles

    (908) 688-7800

  • Alliance Technical Group, LLC - Newark

    Mountainside, NJ · about 10 miles

    (908) 728-3151

All 89 certified labs for New Jersey

ZIP codes in Newark

Which ZIP codes are in Newark: 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 Newark

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

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