Lincoln Park Jacksonville Syst, NJ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.07 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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 Lincoln Park Jacksonville Syst
Lincoln Park Jacksonville Syst serves about 300 people through 100 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Morris County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ1416004; phone on file: 973-897-1659. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lincoln Park Jacksonville Syst's lead record
That is up 1.96 ppb from 2.11 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lincoln Park Jacksonville Syst is 12.1 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.07 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.11 ppb |
| 2024 | 12.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 2.75 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
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. Lincoln Park Jacksonville Syst's 4.07 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in New Jersey and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
60 other systems share Morris County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lincoln Park Jacksonville Syst. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Southeast Morris County Mua | 62,349 | 1.1 ppb |
| Parsippany-Troy Hills Water Department | 50,400 | 4.2 ppb |
| Dover Water Commission | 27,806 | 2.78 ppb |
| Montville Twp Mua | 22,000 | 2.31 ppb |
| Denville Twp Water Dept | 15,881 | 4.31 ppb |
| Madison Water Dept | 15,820 | 2.55 ppb |
| Randolph Twp Public Works Dept | 14,820 | 3.35 ppb |
| Pequannock Twp Water Department | 14,010 | 3.56 ppb |
| Rockaway Twp Water Dept | 14,000 | 2.57 ppb |
| Nj American Water - Roxbury | 11,793 | 4 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lincoln Park, 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 Lincoln Park Jacksonville Syst 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.