Woodbury City W Dept, NJ
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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 Woodbury City W Dept
Woodbury City W Dept serves about 10,263 people through 3,549 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Gloucester County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ0822001; phone on file: 856-853-0892. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Woodbury City W Dept is 2 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.6 ppb |
How Woodbury City W Dept compares
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. Woodbury City W Dept's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 33rd percentile in New Jersey and the 37th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
25 other systems share Gloucester County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Woodbury City W Dept. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Washington Township Mua | 48,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Deptford Twp Mua | 30,561 | 0 (not detected) |
| Monroe Municipal Utilities Authority | 26,179 | 1.98 ppb |
| Glassboro Water Department | 24,244 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Deptford Twp Water Dept | 22,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mantua Township Mua | 12,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Greenwich Twp Water Dept | 9,900 | 4 ppb |
| Nj American Water - Harrison | 9,193 | 1 ppb |
| Borough Of Clayton | 8,179 | 1.17 ppb |
| Pitman Water Department | 7,896 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Woodbury, NJ
Look up your address in Woodbury City W 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 Woodbury City W 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.