Little Brook Nursing Convalescent Home, NJ
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 9.1 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Little Brook Nursing Convalescent Home
Little Brook Nursing Convalescent Home serves about 36 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: NJ1019311; phone on file: 908-832-2220. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 9.9 ppb from 19 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Little Brook Nursing Convalescent Home is 27 ppb across 20 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 9.1 ppb |
| 2025 | 19 ppb over 15 |
| 2024 | 9.41 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.07 ppb |
| 2023 | 5 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.61 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.61 ppb |
| 2021 | 8.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 8.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.16 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.16 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 4.54 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 4 ppb |
| 2017 | 27 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 0.37 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. Little Brook Nursing Convalescent Home's 9.1 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in New Jersey and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
23 other systems share Hunterdon County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Little Brook Nursing Convalescent Home. 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; Califon, 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 Little Brook Nursing Convalescent Home 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.