New Jersey American Water has performed sampling to meet state developed limits for PFAS and better understand the overall occurrence of certain PFAS in drinking water sources. Sampling also allows New Jersey American Water to be better prepared as U.S. EPA has proposed drinking water standards for six PFAS. New Jersey American Water will take appropriate actions to meet new regulations.
Our PFAS results are included in our Consumer Confidence Reports, which are available here. You can find the report for your water system using the Zip Code Search or by clicking on the system name.
New Jersey was the first state to set a maximum contaminant level (MCL) for PFAS with a regulation of perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA) (13 parts per trillion (ppt)) in 2018, followed by PFOA (14 ppt) and PFOS (13 ppt) in 2020.
Additionally, in 2022, U.S. EPA set non-enforceable health advisory levels for four PFAS chemicals – PFOA (0.004 ppt), PFOS (0.02 ppt), GenX (10 ppt), and PFBS (2,000 ppt). The health advisory levels for PFOA and PFOS are below the level of both detection (determining whether or not a substance is present) and quantitation (the ability to reliably determine how much of a substance is present). This means that it is possible for PFOA or PFOS to be present in drinking water at levels that exceed health advisories even if current testing indicates no level of these chemicals. Finally, PFAS chemicals are unique, so two PFAS chemicals at the same level typically do not present the same risk. Therefore, you should not compare the results for one PFAS chemical against the results of another.