Veolia Water New Jersey Lambertville, NJ
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
About Veolia Water New Jersey Lambertville
Veolia Water New Jersey Lambertville serves about 3,960 people through 1,790 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ1017001; phone on file: 609-397-0501. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Veolia Water New Jersey Lambertville is 20.4 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 ppb |
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 9 ppb |
| 2022 | 5 ppb |
| 2022 | 4 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 7 ppb |
| 2020 | 5 ppb |
| 2020 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 20.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 7 ppb |
Against other New Jersey systems
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. Veolia Water New Jersey Lambertville's 1 ppb sits at the 50th percentile in New Jersey and the 54th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
23 other systems share Hunterdon County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Veolia Water New Jersey Lambertville. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Clinton Water Dept | 12,500 | 6.8 ppb |
| Flemington Water Department | 4,581 | 3.4 ppb |
| High Bridge W Dept | 3,300 | 6.7 ppb |
| Glen Gardner W Dept | 1,705 | 1.5 ppb |
| Milford W Dept | 1,453 | 2.5 ppb |
| Hampton Borough Water Depart | 1,401 | 1.5 ppb |
| Nj American Water - Frenchtown | 1,373 | 0 (not detected) |
| Edna Mahan Correctional | 940 | 3 ppb |
| Aqua Nj - Califon | 936 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stockton Water Department | 650 | 2.6 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lambertville, 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 Veolia Water New Jersey Lambertville 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.