In keeping with a recent state mandate, Mayor Jimmy Davis announced that Suez Water has provided the City of Bayonne with a list of properties in Bayonne that specifies which properties have lead services lines and which properties do not. Service lines are the pipes that connect buildings to the water mains in the street.  The same database also shows the properties that have galvanized service lines, non-lead service lines, and service lines with an unknown status.  Mayor Davis said, “As required by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Suez Water has provided the City of Bayonne the required information for posting on our municipal website.  The database is immense, but it does allow for our residents and property owners to search it by property address to find out the status of the service lines leading into their homes and buildings.”

Suez Water began compiling data about service lines a few years ago when it placed new water meters in Bayonne properties.  The database is available for the public to search online on the City of Bayonne website, which is www.bayonnenj.org.  Mayor Davis said, “Unlike most communities, we are very fortunate that Bayonne already has an existing service line status database and we have been able to identity the properties with lead service lines. Having a completed database puts us in a much better position to attack this issue as quickly as possible.”  Mayor Davis continued, “Suez Water is responsible for the database and the way in which it is laid out.  Their list is not arranged in street order. As a service to our residents, the City of Bayonne added a way for residents and property owners to save time and search for their addresses quickly in Suez Water’s list of more than 12,000 addresses.  In some cases, neighboring houses claim the same house number.  By using block and lot numbers, people should be able to determine which service line information goes with which house.”

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