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Is South Dennis, NJ tap water safe?

NJ American Water - Cape May Court House serves South Dennis, 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

NJ American Water - Cape May Court House serves South Dennis. In EPA’s and CDC’s records it has 2 results above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Arsenic at 1.0 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 NJ American Water - Cape May Court House’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near South Dennis

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 South Dennis, 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 · under a mile

    (609) 463-0077

  • Vineland Environmental Laboratories LLC

    Vineland, NJ · about 24 miles

    (856) 692-6800

  • Eurofins Philadelphia - Vineland

    Vineland, NJ · about 27 miles

    (215) 355-3900

All 89 certified labs for New Jersey

ZIP codes in South Dennis

Which ZIP codes are in South Dennis: 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 South Dennis

Other towns in Cape May County with a page of their own.

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