Sisters Of Charity Of St Elizabeth, NJ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.32 ppb (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. 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.
Sisters Of Charity Of St Elizabeth at a glance
Sisters Of Charity Of St Elizabeth serves about 1,100 people through 17 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Morris County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ1422001; phone on file: 973-290-5353. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2.32 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sisters Of Charity Of St Elizabeth is 5.06 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.32 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 5.06 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.72 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. Sisters Of Charity Of St Elizabeth's 2.32 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in New Jersey and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
60 other systems share Morris County; 28 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sisters Of Charity Of St Elizabeth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Southeast Morris County Mua | 62,349 | 1.1 ppb |
| Parsippany-Troy Hills Water Department | 50,400 | 4.2 ppb |
| Dover Water Commission | 27,806 | 2.78 ppb |
| Montville Twp Mua | 22,000 | 2.31 ppb |
| Denville Twp Water Dept | 15,881 | 4.31 ppb |
| Madison Water Dept | 15,820 | 2.55 ppb |
| Randolph Twp Public Works Dept | 14,820 | 3.35 ppb |
| Pequannock Twp Water Department | 14,010 | 3.56 ppb |
| Rockaway Twp Water Dept | 14,000 | 2.57 ppb |
| Nj American Water - Roxbury | 11,793 | 4 ppb |
Next steps for Convent Station, NJ
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Convent Station, 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 Sisters Of Charity Of St Elizabeth 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.