Veolia Water New Jersey - Parkway, NJ
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.2 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.
Who runs the water here
Veolia Water New Jersey - Parkway serves about 92 people through 32 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Passaic County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ1615006; phone on file: 201-599-6020. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (1.19 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Veolia Water New Jersey - Parkway is 18 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.2 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.19 ppb |
| 2024 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.04 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.24 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.17 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 3.03 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 18 ppb over 15 |
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. Veolia Water New Jersey - Parkway's 0.2 ppb sits at the 40th percentile in New Jersey and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Passaic County
25 other systems share Passaic County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Veolia Water New Jersey - Parkway. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Passaic Valley Water Commission | 310,483 | 1.62 ppb |
| Township Of Wayne | 55,000 | 2.93 ppb |
| Manchester Utilities Authority | 12,000 | 0.81 ppb |
| Pompton Lakes Mua | 11,435 | 2.51 ppb |
| Nj American Water - Little Falls | 11,247 | 1 ppb |
| Totowa W Dept | 10,804 | 3.5 ppb |
| Wanaque W Dept. | 10,266 | 6.81 ppb |
| Ringwood Water Department | 9,327 | 1.7 ppb |
| Bloomingdale Water Dept | 7,742 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodland Park Water Department | 6,000 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Haworth, NJ
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Haworth, 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 - Parkway 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.