Lincoln Park Water Dept, NJ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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 Water Dept
Lincoln Park Water Dept serves about 11,000 people through 3,472 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 surface water, in Morris County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ1416001; phone on file: 973-897-1659. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lincoln Park Water Dept's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (3.62 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lincoln Park Water Dept is 5.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.62 ppb |
| 2019 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.64 ppb |
How Lincoln Park Water 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. Lincoln Park Water Dept's 4.1 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in New Jersey and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
60 other systems share Morris County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lincoln Park Water Dept. 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 Water 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.