Pemberton Twp Water Dept - Pemberton Hei, NJ
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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.
Pemberton Twp Water Dept - Pemberton Hei at a glance
Pemberton Twp Water Dept - Pemberton Hei serves about 650 people through 160 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: NJ0329009; phone on file: 609-894-3373. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Pemberton Twp Water Dept - Pemberton Hei's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pemberton Twp Water Dept - Pemberton Hei is 0.07 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0.07 ppb |
How Pemberton Twp Water Dept - Pemberton Hei 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. Pemberton Twp Water Dept - Pemberton Hei's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 21st percentile in New Jersey and the 24th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
45 other systems share Burlington County; 28 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pemberton Twp Water Dept - Pemberton Hei. 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 |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Pemberton Twp Water Dept - Pemberton Hei'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 Pemberton Twp Water Dept - Pemberton Hei 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.