Lorden Heights, NJ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.75 ppb (monitoring period 2015-2023). 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 Lorden Heights
Lorden Heights serves about 20 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Fulton County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NY1710675; phone on file: 201-424-4576. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lorden Heights's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lorden Heights is 1.75 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.75 ppb |
How Lorden Heights 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. Lorden Heights's 1.75 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in New Jersey and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Fulton County
2 other systems share Fulton County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lorden Heights. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lakeside Estates | 41 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hillside Mobile Estates | 17 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Midland 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 Lorden Heights 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.