Gloucester City W Dept, NJ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.61 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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
Gloucester City W Dept serves about 12,460 people through 4,115 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 Camden County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ0414001; phone on file: 856-456-0169. 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 2023 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gloucester City W Dept is 2.61 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.61 ppb |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 2.4 ppb |
How Gloucester City W 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. Gloucester City W Dept's 2.61 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in New Jersey and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Camden County
20 other systems share Camden County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gloucester City W Dept. 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 |
| 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) |
| Clementon Water Department | 5,000 | 1.86 ppb |
Next steps for Gloucester, NJ
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gloucester, 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 Gloucester City W 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.