Mount Olive Twp W D Sand, NJ
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Mount Olive Twp W D Sand serves about 744 people through 248 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Morris County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ1427006; phone on file: 973-584-7086. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Mount Olive Twp W D Sand's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mount Olive Twp W D Sand is 10.3 ppb across 19 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.09 ppb |
| 2023 | 6.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 7.24 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.53 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.84 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.62 ppb |
| 2020 | 10.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 6.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 5 ppb |
| 2018 | 7 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 6 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Mount Olive Twp W D Sand's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 21st percentile in New Jersey and the 25th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Morris County
60 other systems share Morris County; 38 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mount Olive Twp W D Sand. 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 |
Next steps for Budd Lake, NJ
Look up your address in Mount Olive Twp W D Sand's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Mount Olive Twp W D Sand whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1370 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.