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Is Riverdale, NJ tap water safe?

Riverdale Boro Water Dep serves Riverdale, 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

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

The worst: Arsenic 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 Riverdale Boro Water Dep’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Riverdale

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 Riverdale, 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 7 miles

    (973) 728-8044

  • Pace Analytical Services, LLC-Fairfield

    Fairfield, NJ · about 8 miles

    (973) 227-0422

  • Hampton- Clarke

    Fairfield, NJ · about 8 miles

    (973) 244-9770

All 89 certified labs for New Jersey

ZIP codes in Riverdale

Which ZIP codes are in Riverdale: 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 Riverdale

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

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