Barnegat Twp Water Sewer, NJ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 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. 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.
About Barnegat Twp Water Sewer
Barnegat Twp Water Sewer serves about 20,000 people through 6,073 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Ocean County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ1533001; phone on file: 609-696-6185. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Barnegat Twp Water Sewer is 0.7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Barnegat Twp Water Sewer's 0.7 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in New Jersey and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
54 other systems share Ocean County; 29 of them have a higher latest lead result than Barnegat Twp Water Sewer. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Veolia Water New Jersey Toms River | 123,184 | 1.1 ppb |
| Brick Township Mua | 81,829 | 0.52 ppb |
| Jackson Twp Mua | 37,224 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stafford Twp Water - Beach Haven West | 30,608 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lacey Twp Mua | 29,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lakewood Twp Mua | 27,614 | 2.12 ppb |
| Long Beach Twp Brant Bea | 25,300 | 1.2 ppb |
| Lavallette Water Dept | 25,000 | 1.19 ppb |
| Little Egg Harbor Twp Mu | 24,215 | 2 ppb |
| Manchester Twp Water Utility - Eastern | 23,980 | 0.4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Barnegat, 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 Barnegat Twp Water Sewer 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.