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Wastewater management plant in Newtown Creek, with the skyline of New York City in the background.
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Jan. 9, 2020: A worker hands a piece of lead pipe to a colleague as they work to remove water service lines in Trenton.
If you want to know whether your local water system contains lead service lines, meets state requirements for treating bacteria, spends money on annual maintenance, or has an affordability program for households, where do you turn?
Customers can now get all that and a slew of other information from Jersey Water Check, a website believed to be the first of its kind in the United States that consolidates granular information on the condition of each one of the state’s water systems and whether they meet a set of industry best-practice standards, in a user-friendly format in one place.