Reflection Lakes Garden Apartments, NJ
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.4 ppb (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 result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Reflection Lakes Garden Apartments at a glance
Reflection Lakes Garden Apartments serves about 40 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Passaic County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ1615009; phone on file: 973-202-1818. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.2 ppb from 6.2 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Reflection Lakes Garden Apartments is 39.9 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 7.4 ppb |
| 2025 | 6.2 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 39.9 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 5.91 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 8.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.5 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. Reflection Lakes Garden Apartments's 7.4 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in New Jersey and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
25 other systems share Passaic County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Reflection Lakes Garden Apartments. 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 |
| Nj American Water - Little Falls | 11,247 | 1 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) |
Next steps for Newfoundland, NJ
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Newfoundland, 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 Reflection Lakes Garden Apartments 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.