Environmental Group’s Report Finds Arsenic at Ridgewood Water 

September 22,2017
the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, Environmental Working Group’s drinking water quality report shows results of tests conducted by the water utility and provided to the Environmental Working Group by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, as well as information from the U.S. EPA Enforcement and Compliance History database (ECHO). For the latest quarter assessed by the EPA (January to March 2017), tap water provided by this water utility was in compliance with federal health-based drinking water standards.

This water utility buys or otherwise receives some or all of its finished water from one or more public water utility systems. EWG research suggests that this water system purchases water from multiple suppliers. The list below includes the names of the original water suppliers, with links to their water quality testing data.
– United Water Nj Franklin Lakes
– Hawthorne Water Department

Ridgewood registered 8 contaminates above health guide levels including Arsenic . Chemicals detected in 2015 for which annual utility averages exceeded an EWG-selected health guideline established by a federal or state public health authority; chemicals detected under the EPA’s Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 3) program in 2013 to 2015, for which annual utility averages exceeded a health guideline established by a federal or state public health authority; perfluorinated chemicals.

EWG also reported that from January to March 2017 this water utility was in violation of health-based drinking water standards. From January to March 2017 this water utility was in violation of monitoring for contaminants or reporting monitoring tests to state agencies as required by the Safe Drinking Water Act and for 6 quarters Ridgewood Water was in violation of any federal drinking water standard from April 2014 to March 2017.

Full Report : https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/system.php?pws=NJ0251001#.WcTz3bpFz9k