Upper Deerfield Twp Water Dept, NJ
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Upper Deerfield Twp Water Dept
Upper Deerfield Twp Water Dept serves about 3,100 people through 1,017 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Cumberland County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ0613004; phone on file: 609-381-6443. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Upper Deerfield Twp Water Dept's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Upper Deerfield Twp Water Dept is 0.47 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0.47 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. Upper Deerfield Twp Water Dept's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 28th percentile in New Jersey and the 33rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Cumberland County
12 other systems share Cumberland County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Upper Deerfield Twp Water Dept. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Vineland Water & Sewer Utility | 36,250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Millville Water Department | 27,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bridgeton City Water Dept | 22,770 | 2.9 ppb |
| Fairton Federal Correctional | 1,841 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nj State Prison Bayside | 1,679 | 0 (not detected) |
| United Mobile Homes Of Vineland | 1,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bayview Water System | 771 | 3.4 ppb |
| Evergreen Estates | 450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Country Meadows Rents And Sales Mhp Llc | 250 | 4.21 ppb |
| Fairton Oaks M H Community | 207 | 17.76 ppb |
Next steps for Seabrook, NJ
Look up your address in Upper Deerfield Twp Water Dept's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Upper Deerfield Twp Water Dept 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.