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Water filter service in Cherry Hill, NJ
Testing, installation, and service for homes and businesses in Cherry Hill, Camden County. What follows is what we can source about the water here.
What is in the water in Cherry Hill
Cherry Hill is served by New Jersey American Water, Delaware River Regional system .
Source water: The Delaware River, treated at the Delaware River Regional plant at Delran. The plant was built in 1996 for a specific reason: the aquifers under this part of the state could no longer meet regional demand on their own. That same year the state restricted groundwater withdrawal from the Potomac Raritan Magothy system in the southern coastal plain because drawdown had become excessive, and the surface plant is the answer to that restriction. It can deliver as much as 40 million gallons a day into Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Salem counties, reaching 38 South Jersey municipalities. Cherry Hill sits on river water for reasons of regional groundwater management rather than local geography. Reported by New Jersey American Water for 2024.
In February 2020 routine sampling in the Delaware found 1,4-dioxane, and the company responded with a 25 million dollar advanced oxidation installation at the plant. That history is the most useful thing on this page for anyone shopping for equipment, because 1,4-dioxane is the contaminant that defeats the filter most people reach for. It is a small, extremely water soluble molecule, it does not adsorb onto activated carbon in any useful quantity, and it passes through a standard carbon cartridge essentially untouched. The reason the utility built an advanced oxidation stage rather than adding more filtration is that oxidation is what actually destroys it. The corollary is reassuring and worth stating plainly: the plant already deals with this, and buying a carbon filter in response to the 1,4-dioxane story would be buying the wrong thing for a problem already solved upstream.
These figures describe the distribution system. Your own tap can differ, and for lead it very likely does.
We do not yet hold a sourced figure for every field on this page. Where something is missing it is left blank rather than estimated, because an unsourced number here would look like information.
Buildings and plumbing in Cherry Hill
A river fed supply changes nothing about lead at source, because the Delaware contributes none and neither does the plant. What reaches a Cherry Hill tap as lead came from the service line or from the plumbing in the building. Under the New Jersey law of July 2021 the company must record the material on both sides of every service line and replace all lead and galvanised steel by 2031, and it replaces the customer owned portion at no direct cost when the work is done. Much of Cherry Hill was built after the Second World War, and the housing that postdates the 1986 federal ban on lead solder and lead pipe is out of scope entirely, so for a large share of the township the inventory record closes the question without anyone spending anything.
What this means in practice
- Chlorine and chloramine taste. Confirm with free and total chlorine test strip, plus the utility report for the disinfectant type.
- Lead in drinking water. Confirm with certified laboratory analysis of a first-draw tap sample.
What these figures mean for filter choice
Lead is a plumbing question rather than a supply question in Cherry Hill, as it is everywhere. What that means practically is that a filter certified under NSF/ANSI 53 for lead at the tap you drink from sits downstream of the entire problem, whereas a whole-house filter at the point of entry sits upstream of nearly all of it and costs several times more.
Filters that apply here
- Lead reduction filters. Point-of-use filters certified for lead under NSF/ANSI 53.
- Under-sink carbon filters. A carbon block cartridge on the cold line under the sink.
- Reverse osmosis, tank. A membrane system under the sink that produces treated water to a dedicated tap and stores it in a small pressure tank.
- Whole-house filtration. A filter plumbed into the main line where water enters the building, so every tap, shower, and appliance downstream is fed treated water.
- Sediment filters. A mechanical filter that captures sand, silt, rust flakes, and other particles.
Installation in Cherry Hill
- Free water testing. Typically 45 to 60 minutes.
- Whole-house filter installation. Typically 3 to 5 hours.
- Under-sink reverse osmosis installation. Typically 2 to 4 hours.
- Repair, any brand. Typically 1 to 3 hours.
Renters, co-ops, and businesses
Nearby areas
- Camden, NJ , Camden County
- Gloucester, NJ , Camden County
- Trenton, NJ , Mercer County
- Vineland, NJ , Cumberland County
Sources
- New Jersey American Water, 2024.
- New Jersey American Water, 2020.
- Population: US Census Bureau sub-county population estimates, Vintage 2024 (POPESTIMATE2024).
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