Auburn Village Water Sup, NJ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.9 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Auburn Village Water Sup serves about 200 people through 63 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Salem County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ1706001; phone on file: 856-299-0780. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Auburn Village Water Sup's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (6.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Auburn Village Water Sup is 8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 6.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 6.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 8 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. Auburn Village Water Sup's 6.9 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in New Jersey and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Salem County
14 other systems share Salem County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Auburn Village Water Sup. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Nj American Water - Penns Grove | 14,406 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pennsville Twsp. Water Depart. | 13,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nj American Water - Salem City | 4,794 | 2 ppb |
| Woodstown Water Department | 4,455 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elmer Boro W Dept | 1,385 | 1.5 ppb |
| Harding Woods Mhp | 1,276 | 0 (not detected) |
| Holly Tree Acres System 1 | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Country Club Estates | 300 | 5.3 ppb |
| Big Oak Rehab | 259 | 3.75 ppb |
| Picnic Grove Mobile Homes | 250 | 0.46 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pedricktown, 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 Auburn Village Water Sup 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.