Veolia Water New Jersey Sunset Ridge, NJ
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 14.3 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Veolia Water New Jersey Sunset Ridge at a glance
Veolia Water New Jersey Sunset Ridge serves about 208 people through 78 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: NJ1922011; 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.
Lead results over time
That is up 6.9 ppb from 7.4 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Veolia Water New Jersey Sunset Ridge is 14.3 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 14.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2025 | 7.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 5 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0.96 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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 Sunset Ridge's 14.3 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in New Jersey and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Sussex County
59 other systems share Sussex County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Veolia Water New Jersey Sunset Ridge. 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 |
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 Sunset Ridge 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.