Brooklawn Water Departme, NJ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.02 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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
Brooklawn Water Departme serves about 2,300 people through 940 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 Camden County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ0407001; phone on file: 856-456-2638. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Brooklawn Water Departme's lead record
That is up 5.02 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Brooklawn Water Departme is 5.02 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 5.02 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Brooklawn Water Departme 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. Brooklawn Water Departme's 5.02 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in New Jersey and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Camden County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Brooklawn Water Departme. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Merchantville Pennsauken | 47,144 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Camden | 46,585 | 1 ppb |
| Aqua Nj - Blackwood | 44,396 | 0 (not detected) |
| Winslow Twp Dmu | 39,174 | 0.66 ppb |
| Collingswood Water Depar | 24,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Berlin Water Department | 12,991 | 1.82 ppb |
| Gloucester City W Dept | 12,460 | 2.61 ppb |
| Haddon Twp Water Departm | 11,938 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pine Hill Borough Mua | 10,233 | 3.1 ppb |
| Bellmawr Water Dept | 9,522 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Brooklawn, NJ
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Brooklawn, 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 Brooklawn Water Departme 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.