Woodstown Water Department, NJ
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2027). 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 Woodstown Water Department
Woodstown Water Department serves about 4,455 people through 1,390 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Salem County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ1715001; phone on file: 609-780-3098. 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 down 2.3 ppb from 2.3 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Woodstown Water Department is 2.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.66 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.5 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. Woodstown Water Department's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 29th percentile in New Jersey and the 34th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Salem County
14 other systems share Salem County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Woodstown Water Department. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Nj American Water - Penns Grove | 14,406 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pennsville Twsp. Water Depart. | 13,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nj American Water - Salem City | 4,794 | 2 ppb |
| Elmer Boro W Dept | 1,385 | 1.5 ppb |
| Harding Woods Mhp | 1,276 | 0 (not detected) |
| Holly Tree Acres System 1 | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Country Club Estates | 300 | 5.3 ppb |
| Big Oak Rehab | 259 | 3.75 ppb |
| Picnic Grove Mobile Homes | 250 | 0.46 ppb |
| Auburn Village Water Sup | 200 | 6.9 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Woodstown Water Department'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 Woodstown Water Department 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.