Montclair Water Report Released: 2016 Quality ‘Meets Standards’

MONTCLAIR, NJ — The Montclair Water Bureau released the township's 2016 water quality report last week, stating that the municipal water supply “meets all state and federal standards.”

The analysis covers Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2016, and was made by using the data from the most recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) required tests, according to Montclair officials.

The full report can be seen online here.

Where do Montclair and Glen Ridge get their drinking water? According to the report:

“The Township of Montclair and the Borough of Glen Ridge obtain their water from North Jersey District Water Supply Commission (NJDWSC). The Township of Montclair and the Borough of Glen Ridge are partners in the NJDWSC, which owns and operates the 29.6 billion-gallon Wanaque Reservoir and Treatment Plant and the seven-billion-gallon Monksville Reservoir. The water is received by the Township of Montclair through its Grove Street Pumping Station and is pumped throughout Montclair.”

The Montclair system also includes three municipal wells, one in each of the three pressure zones, town officials wrote in the report.

The Borough of Glen Ridge has three interconnections with Montclair through which it receives its water supply, the report states.

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