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What is in the water at 07458

3 public water systems serve this ZIP code in the federal records. Everything below comes from EPA monitoring data, and everything missing is named.

HO HO KUS WATER DEPT

PWSID NJ0228001 · NJ · serves 4,060 people

PFAS and lithium

10 compounds detected at or above the reporting limit under EPA’s UCMR 5 monitoring, across 71 samples.

CompoundHighest detectedSamplesMost recent
lithium15 µg/L38/14/2023
PFOA0.03 µg/L88/14/2023
PFOS0.021 µg/L88/14/2023
PFNA0.016 µg/L58/14/2023
PFPeA0.014 µg/L88/14/2023
PFBS0.014 µg/L88/14/2023
PFHxA0.012 µg/L88/14/2023
PFBA0.0094 µg/L88/14/2023
PFHpA0.0081 µg/L88/14/2023
PFHxS0.0078 µg/L78/14/2023

A detection is a measurement, not a violation and not a health finding. EPA states that UCMR 5 results do not indicate compliance or non-compliance with any limit.

Health-based violations

No open health-based violation on record. This covers MCL, treatment technique and MRDL violations in SDWIS that have not been returned to compliance. It excludes monitoring and reporting violations, which are the large majority nationally, so this is not “no violations”, and SDWIS completeness varies by state.

Hardness

Too few readings to state a hardness. 1 station(s), 9 result(s). Below two stations and five results this page will not state a number: a median of two readings from one creek is not your water.

VEOLIA WATER NEW JERSEY HACKENSACK

PWSID NJ0238001 · NJ · serves 792,713 people

PFAS and lithium

8 compounds detected at or above the reporting limit under EPA’s UCMR 5 monitoring, across 48 samples.

CompoundHighest detectedSamplesMost recent
PFOA0.014 µg/L128/5/2024
PFOS0.0081 µg/L88/5/2024
PFPeA0.0057 µg/L88/5/2024
PFHxA0.0053 µg/L88/5/2024
PFBA0.0052 µg/L12/12/2025
PFHxS0.0047 µg/L78/5/2024
PFBS0.004 µg/L25/6/2024
PFHpA0.0032 µg/L25/6/2024

A detection is a measurement, not a violation and not a health finding. EPA states that UCMR 5 results do not indicate compliance or non-compliance with any limit.

Health-based violations

No open health-based violation on record. This covers MCL, treatment technique and MRDL violations in SDWIS that have not been returned to compliance. It excludes monitoring and reporting violations, which are the large majority nationally, so this is not “no violations”, and SDWIS completeness varies by state.

Hardness

Median hardness 157 mg/L as CaCO₃, measured at 9 stations serving this system across 100 results, 2015-03-04 to 2023-09-19. Measured in the water source and distribution area, not at a tap, and not in your home.

RAMSEY WATER DEPT

PWSID NJ0248001 · NJ · serves 15,207 people · service area inferred by a model, not supplied by the state

PFAS and lithium

7 compounds detected at or above the reporting limit under EPA’s UCMR 5 monitoring, across 47 samples.

CompoundHighest detectedSamplesMost recent
lithium13 µg/L65/20/2024
PFOA0.014 µg/L127/29/2024
PFHxA0.0054 µg/L87/29/2024
PFOS0.0053 µg/L66/24/2024
PFPeA0.0052 µg/L87/29/2024
PFBS0.0036 µg/L46/24/2024
PFHpA0.0035 µg/L36/24/2024

A detection is a measurement, not a violation and not a health finding. EPA states that UCMR 5 results do not indicate compliance or non-compliance with any limit.

Health-based violations

No open health-based violation on record. This covers MCL, treatment technique and MRDL violations in SDWIS that have not been returned to compliance. It excludes monitoring and reporting violations, which are the large majority nationally, so this is not “no violations”, and SDWIS completeness varies by state.

Hardness

No hardness measurement. Hardness is measured at environmental monitoring stations, and none fell inside this system’s service area. That is a gap in where monitoring happens, not a finding about the water.

What this report cannot tell you

Every figure describes water at a sampling point: a treatment plant, an entry point to the distribution system, or a monitoring station. None of it describes water arriving at your tap. Plumbing between the two can add lead and copper, and if your home was built before 1986 a test kit tells you something no federal dataset can.

Sources: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence (final release, frozen July 2026) · EPA SDWIS health-based violations · USGS and state monitoring via the Water Quality Portal · EPA Public Water System Service Area Boundaries v3. Compiled 2026-09-01 · 1 of 3 service areas here are modelled.