County drinking water records
Union County, NJ drinking water systems
5 community water systems serve Union County, NJ, reporting 995,560 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.
None of them had a health-based violation in the last 10 years.
5 rely mainly on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.
Their lead service line inventories list 4,015 lead lines, 11,593 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 182,897 lines of unknown material.
- Community water systems
- 5
- People served, sum of each system's own figure
- 995,560
- Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
- 0
- Systems with one unresolved
- 0
- Lead service lines in inventories
- 4,015
Water systems serving Union County
5 systemsPeople served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.
| System | Serves | People served | Main source | Health-based violations, 10 years | Unresolved | Lead lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NJ American Water - Raritan | Martinsville, Linden and 38 more and land outside them | 615,430 | Surface water | 0 | 0 | 489 |
| NJ American Water - Short Hills | Summit, Basking Ridge and 17 more | 217,230 | Surface water | 0 | 0 | 3,301 |
| NJ American Water - Liberty | Elizabeth | 134,000 | Purchased surface water | 0 | 0 | 161 |
| Rahway Water Department | Rahway | 27,300 | Surface water | 0 | 0 | 64 |
| Winfield Mutual Housing | Outside cities and towns | 1,600 | Purchased surface water | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cities and towns in Union County
19 places- Connecticut Farms1 system
- Cranford1 system
- Elizabeth1 system
- Fanwood1 system
- Garwood1 system
- Kean University1 system
- Kenilworth1 system
- Linden1 system
- Mountainside1 system
- New Providence1 system
- Plainfield1 system
- Rahway1 system
- Roselle1 system
- Roselle Park1 system
- Springfield1 system
- Summit1 system
- Union1 system
- Vauxhall1 system
- Westfield1 system
Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations