Pemberton Borough Water, NJ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.71 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.
Who runs the water here
Pemberton Borough Water serves about 1,771 people through 664 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 Burlington County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ0328001; phone on file: 609-894-8222. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.99 ppb from 3.7 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pemberton Borough Water is 4.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.71 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.5 ppb |
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. Pemberton Borough Water's 0.71 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in New Jersey and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
45 other systems share Burlington County; 26 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pemberton Borough Water. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Nj American Water - Mount Holly | 47,427 | 0 (not detected) |
| Evesham Mua | 45,538 | 1.4 ppb |
| Mt Laurel Twp Mua | 41,743 | 1.8 ppb |
| Willingboro Mua | 35,000 | 1.5 ppb |
| Burlington Twp W Dept | 27,000 | 3.81 ppb |
| Moorestown Water Dept | 20,700 | 2 ppb |
| Maple Shade Water Department | 19,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Medford Twp Dept Of Muni | 17,272 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bordentown Water Departm | 15,821 | 2.19 ppb |
| Jbmdl-Dix Main System | 12,765 | 0.3 ppb |
Next steps for Pemeberton, NJ
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pemeberton, 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 Pemberton Borough Water 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.