Nj American Water - Little Falls, NJ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Nj American Water - Little Falls at a glance
Nj American Water - Little Falls serves about 11,247 people through 4,546 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Passaic County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ1605001; phone on file: 973-564-5751. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Nj American Water - Little Falls is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
How Nj American Water - Little Falls 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. Nj American Water - Little Falls's 1 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in New Jersey and the 55th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Passaic County
25 other systems share Passaic County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Nj American Water - Little Falls. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Passaic Valley Water Commission | 310,483 | 1.62 ppb |
| Township Of Wayne | 55,000 | 2.93 ppb |
| Manchester Utilities Authority | 12,000 | 0.81 ppb |
| Pompton Lakes Mua | 11,435 | 2.51 ppb |
| Totowa W Dept | 10,804 | 3.5 ppb |
| Wanaque W Dept. | 10,266 | 6.81 ppb |
| Ringwood Water Department | 9,327 | 1.7 ppb |
| Bloomingdale Water Dept | 7,742 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodland Park Water Department | 6,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Veolia Water Nj - Olde Milford Est | 1,577 | 3.59 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Short Mills, 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 Nj American Water - Little Falls 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.