Hunterdon Care Center, NJ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.6 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.
About Hunterdon Care Center
Hunterdon Care Center serves about 284 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ1021363; phone on file: 908-782-9292. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0.83 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hunterdon Care Center is 1.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.83 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.83 ppb |
How Hunterdon Care Center 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. Hunterdon Care Center's 1.6 ppb sits at the 60th percentile in New Jersey and the 65th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
23 other systems share Hunterdon County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hunterdon Care Center. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Clinton Water Dept | 12,500 | 6.8 ppb |
| Flemington Water Department | 4,581 | 3.4 ppb |
| Veolia Water New Jersey Lambertville | 3,960 | 1 ppb |
| High Bridge W Dept | 3,300 | 6.7 ppb |
| Glen Gardner W Dept | 1,705 | 1.5 ppb |
| Milford W Dept | 1,453 | 2.5 ppb |
| Hampton Borough Water Depart | 1,401 | 1.5 ppb |
| Nj American Water - Frenchtown | 1,373 | 0 (not detected) |
| Edna Mahan Correctional | 940 | 3 ppb |
| Aqua Nj - Califon | 936 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Flemington, 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 Hunterdon Care Center 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.