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Is Woodcliff Lake, NJ tap water safe?

Park Ridge Water Dept serves Woodcliff Lake, 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

Park Ridge Water Dept serves Woodcliff Lake. In EPA’s and CDC’s records it has 2 results above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029, 3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: PFOA at 17.2 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

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 Park Ridge Water Dept’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Woodcliff Lake

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 Woodcliff Lake, 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 12 miles

    (973) 728-8044

  • Radon Testing Corporation of America Inc.

    Elmsford, NY · about 13 miles

    (914) 345-3380

  • Pace Analytical Services, LLC-Fairfield

    Fairfield, NJ · about 16 miles

    (973) 227-0422

All 89 certified labs for New Jersey

ZIP codes in Woodcliff Lake

Which ZIP codes are in Woodcliff Lake: 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 Woodcliff Lake

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