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Is Hawthorne, NJ tap water safe?

Hawthorne Water Department serves Hawthorne, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and CDC’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Hawthorne Water Department serves Hawthorne. In EPA’s and CDC’s records it has 3 results above the health goal, and 1 health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lead at 3.1 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Hawthorne Water Department’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Hawthorne

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab New Jersey certifies.

The 3 labs New Jersey certifies closest to Hawthorne, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Pace Analytical Services, LLC-Fairfield

    Fairfield, NJ · about 9 miles

    (973) 227-0422

  • Hampton- Clarke

    Fairfield, NJ · about 9 miles

    (973) 244-9770

  • Environmental Laboratory Services, LLC

    Ringwood, NJ · about 11 miles

    (973) 728-8044

All 89 certified labs for New Jersey

ZIP codes in Hawthorne

Which ZIP codes are in Hawthorne: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: NJDEP Office of Quality Assurance, certified drinking water labs; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Hawthorne

Other towns in Passaic County with a page of their own.

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