Alpha Municipal Water Works, NJ
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Alpha Municipal Water Works at a glance
Alpha Municipal Water Works serves about 2,530 people through 1,190 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Warren County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ2102001; phone on file: 908-454-0088. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 10.3 ppb from 1.7 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Alpha Municipal Water Works is 12 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 4 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 605 New Jersey systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 5 are over 15 ppb right now and 52 have gone over at some point. Alpha Municipal Water Works's 12 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in New Jersey and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Warren County
23 other systems share Warren County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Alpha Municipal Water Works. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Aqua Nj - Phillipsburg | 26,686 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hackettstown Mua | 22,000 | 5 ppb |
| Nj American Water - Washington/Oxford | 10,719 | 1 ppb |
| Allamuchy Twp Water & Sewer | 5,423 | 2.6 ppb |
| Nj American Water - Belvidere | 2,854 | 0 (not detected) |
| Township Of Blairstown Dpw | 800 | 1.01 ppb |
| Veolia Water Nj Independence Highland | 350 | 3.84 ppb |
| Country View Village, Llc | 310 | 1.14 ppb |
| Forest Manor Retirement Home | 224 | 0 (not detected) |
| Windtryst Apts | 216 | 0.9 ppb |
Next steps for Alpha, NJ
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Alpha, NJ may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Alpha Municipal Water Works whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.