Belleville Releases Annual Drinking Water Quality Report

BELLEVILLE, NJ — Belleville has released its most recent annual water quality report.

According to the latest municipal report, which covers 2021, here’s where the township gets its drinking water from:

“Belleville Township purchases treated surface water from the Newark Water Department through four interconnections located on Passaic Avenue, Hilton Street, Joralemon Street, and Belleville Avenue. Newark withdraws water from the Pequannock Watershed in West Milford, New Jersey and treats it at the Pequannock Water Treatment Plant. Water quality monitoring stations are operated by the U.S. Geological Survey upstream of the Pequannock WTP intake at the Charlotteburg Reservoir and Oak Ridge Reservoir. These monitoring stations provide continuous data for important water quality parameters, and, help provide advanced warning of adverse changes in water quality. Emergency connections with another purveyor, Nutley, exist within the system.”

Belleville officials wrote:

“This report confirms that your drinking water is safe. However, as you may know, in the past, the township was experiencing issues of non-compliance for the following contaminants: disinfection by-products (Total Trihalomethanes & Haloacetic Acids); total coliform; iron and manganese; lead; and, Consumer Confidence Report (CCR). In these situations, you have been notified of the violations, what the Belleville Water Department is doing to remediate these issues, as well as, what actions you should be taking as a consumer of our water.”

Township officials continued:

“We are actively implementing improvements to our water system to provide you with a better quality of drinking water, i.e., Newark has made treatment modifications to reduce the levels of disinfection by-products; hydrant flushing and revised sampling procedures to reduce positive total coliform results; sampling of iron and manganese yearly; Belleville has distributed free filters and replacement cartridges to qualified residents, and, Newark is now utilizing zinc orthophosphate for corrosion control which coats the lead pipes and fixtures to prevent lead from corroding and leaching into our drinking water thus lowering lead levels; and, revise the CCR to conform to DEP guidelines. Finally, the Township conducted one (1) Level 2 Assessment due to detected coliform bacteria in the distribution system. No sanitary defects were found during the assessment, however, we failed to report our corrective actions which resulted in a violation.”

Results of all of Belleville Township water sampling can be reviewed at the NJDEP Drinking Water Watch website.

See the town’s full 2021 water quality report here.

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