Tf Cairo Apartments, NJ
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.7 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.
Who runs the water here
Tf Cairo Apartments serves about 25 people through 16 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Greene County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NY1922996; phone on file: 201-310-6891. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Tf Cairo Apartments's lead record
That is down 1.8 ppb from 5.5 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tf Cairo Apartments is 5.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 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. Tf Cairo Apartments's 3.7 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in New Jersey and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Next steps for Midland Park, NJ
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Midland Park, 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 Tf Cairo 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.