Beach Haven Water Dept, NJ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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
Beach Haven Water Dept serves about 20,000 people through 2,546 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: NJ1503001; phone on file: 732-470-7389. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Beach Haven Water Dept is 10 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 8 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 10 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 3 ppb |
How Beach Haven Water Dept 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. Beach Haven Water Dept's 2.6 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in New Jersey and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
54 other systems share Ocean County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Beach Haven Water Dept. 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 |
Next steps for Beach Haven, NJ
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Beach Haven, 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 Beach Haven Water Dept 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.