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NJ American Water Short Hills

Community water system in Bedminster Twp, Belvidere Town, Berkeley Heights Twp and 26 more, Essex County, New Jersey, serving 217,230 people from surface water. 1 rule violated in the past three years. Privately owned. System ID NJ0712001.

People served 217,230 surface water
Rules violated, past 3 years 1 one rule can carry several violations
Unresolved 0 rules still in violation, EPA data updated Oct 7, 2026
Quarters with violations 1 of the last 12 quarters

Quarterly compliance history

–Q4
2023
–Q1
2024
–Q2
2024
–Q3
2024
–Q4
2024
–Q1
2025
–Q2
2025
–Q3
2025
–Q4
2025
VQ1
2026
–Q2
2026
–Q3
2026
UQ4
2026
–No violation identified VViolation identified SSerious violator (EPA enforcement priority) UUndetermined Oldest quarter on the left. Quarters 1 to 12 are the twelve most recently completed quarters at EPA's last data refresh; the 13th is the current quarter up to that date, which EPA reports as undetermined.

Rules violated in the past three years

Oct to Dec 2023 to Oct to Dec 2026

Surface Water Treatment Rule (SWTR)

All systems using surface water (rivers, lakes, reservoirs) or groundwater under surface influence (GWUDI) must filter and disinfect.
EPA rule code 0200 · Treatment Technique

What it means: All systems using surface water (rivers, lakes, reservoirs) or groundwater under surface influence (GWUDI) must filter and disinfect. Treatment technique violations mean the system failed to maintain adequate disinfectant residual, exceeded turbidity limits, or lacked required permits. Snowmelt and storm events can raise turbidity and pathogen loads in surface water.

Health effects: Without proper filtration/disinfection: Giardia lamblia (severe diarrhea, cramping), Cryptosporidium (life-threatening for immunocompromised individuals), viruses (hepatitis A, norovirus). Turbidity itself is not a health risk but can shield pathogens from disinfection.

Limit: Treatment technique: turbidity ≤0.3 NTU in 95% of monthly samples; detectable disinfectant residual in 95% of distribution samples

About this rule
About this data

EPA counts the rules a system was in violation of, not the individual violations; one rule can carry several in the same period. Unresolved means still in violation at EPA's latest data refresh. Measured contaminant levels are not part of this record; each system publishes them in its annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Service area from EPA's Public Water System Service Area Boundaries dataset: State Agency. The system's location is the centre of the service area EPA publishes for the system.

Source: the U.S. EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online system (ECHO), which publishes the federal Safe Drinking Water Information System. EPA's terms and values are shown as published. The New Jersey records are from EPA's data refresh of Oct 7, 2026; EPA refreshes this data quarterly, and states report to EPA with a lag of three to six months, so the newest violations may not appear yet. Retrieved from ECHO on Oct 11, 2026.