Sussex Cnty Hlth-The Homested, NJ
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.38 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.
Sussex Cnty Hlth-The Homested at a glance
Sussex Cnty Hlth-The Homested serves about 100 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Sussex County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ1905004. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.06 ppb from 5.44 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sussex Cnty Hlth-The Homested is 16.7 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 3.38 ppb |
| 2025 | 5.44 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.63 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 16.7 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
How Sussex Cnty Hlth-The Homested 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. Sussex Cnty Hlth-The Homested's 3.38 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in New Jersey and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Sussex County
59 other systems share Sussex County; 19 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sussex Cnty Hlth-The Homested. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sparta Twp Water Utility - Lake Mohawk | 17,625 | 1.01 ppb |
| Newton Water & Sewer Utility | 8,300 | 2.75 ppb |
| Hopatcong Water Dept | 7,224 | 9.37 ppb |
| Veolia Water New Jersey Vernon Valley | 5,517 | 0 (not detected) |
| Franklin Bd Of Public Works | 5,500 | 1.09 ppb |
| Stanhope W Dept | 3,730 | 5.88 ppb |
| Hamburg Board Of Public | 3,382 | 2.01 ppb |
| Ogdensburg W Dept | 2,800 | 1.66 ppb |
| Sussex W Dept | 2,201 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montague Water Co. | 2,165 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Newton, 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 Sussex Cnty Hlth-The Homested 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.