Bancroft Neuro Health Center, NJ
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Bancroft Neuro Health Center at a glance
Bancroft Neuro Health Center serves about 142 people through 21 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: NJ1714003. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bancroft Neuro Health Center is 3 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
How Bancroft Neuro Health Center compares
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. Bancroft Neuro Health Center's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 12th percentile in New Jersey and the 12th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Salem County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bancroft Neuro Health Center. 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 |
Next steps for Woodstown, NJ
Look up your address in Bancroft Neuro Health Center's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Bancroft Neuro Health Center 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.