Cedar Glen Lakes Water C, NJ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.9 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
Cedar Glen Lakes Water C serves about 2,126 people through 1,236 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Ocean County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ1518002; phone on file: 856-678-5531. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 3.1 ppb from 1.8 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cedar Glen Lakes Water C is 7 ppb across 18 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2025 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 4.23 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 3.36 ppb |
| 2023 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 7 ppb |
| 2022 | 6 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other New Jersey systems
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. Cedar Glen Lakes Water C's 4.9 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in New Jersey and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
54 other systems share Ocean County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cedar Glen Lakes Water C. 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; Newton, 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 Cedar Glen Lakes Water C 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.