Point Pleasant Beach Water Department, NJ
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12.8 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Point Pleasant Beach Water Department serves about 12,000 people through 2,950 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Ocean County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ1525001; phone on file: 732-620-6188. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Point Pleasant Beach Water Department's lead record
That is up 12.8 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Point Pleasant Beach Water Department is 12.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 12.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 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. Point Pleasant Beach Water Department's 12.8 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in New Jersey and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Ocean County
54 other systems share Ocean County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Point Pleasant Beach Water Department. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Veolia Water New Jersey Toms River | 123,184 | 1.1 ppb |
| Brick Township Mua | 81,829 | 0.52 ppb |
| Jackson Twp Mua | 37,224 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stafford Twp Water - Beach Haven West | 30,608 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lacey Twp Mua | 29,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lakewood Twp Mua | 27,614 | 2.12 ppb |
| Long Beach Twp Brant Bea | 25,300 | 1.2 ppb |
| Lavallette Water Dept | 25,000 | 1.19 ppb |
| Little Egg Harbor Twp Mu | 24,215 | 2 ppb |
| Manchester Twp Water Utility - Eastern | 23,980 | 0.4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Point Pleaseant Beach, 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 Point Pleasant Beach Water Department 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.