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Veolia Water New Jersey, Hackensack system: 2025 water quality report results

In its 2025 water quality report, the Veolia Water New Jersey, Hackensack system reported PFOA at 9 ppt and PFOS at 3 ppt (highest running annual average). PFOA is below New Jersey's limit but above the federal limit; PFOS is below both the New Jersey and federal limits. Lead at the 90th percentile of home taps: 11 ppb. Hardness: up to 210 mg/L (very hard).

Public water system NJ0238001, operated by Veolia Water New Jersey. Read the utility's 2025 report; every value below was checked against it.

2025 results against New Jersey and federal limits

Each bar shows the highest running annual average reported for this system, in parts per trillion (ppt), against both limits. The darker band is the range of results the report lists; the status compares the reported value, not the top of the range, with the limits.

The 2025 report doesn't list 1,2,3-trichloropropane. New Jersey sets its own limits for arsenic (stricter than the federal one) and 1,2,3-trichloropropane (no federal limit); its sodium and chloride limits are recommended upper limits, not enforceable. Federal limits as of November 2026.

According to EPA, lead gets into drinking water when plumbing that contains lead corrodes, and where a home has a lead service line, that pipe is typically the largest source. So a home's own tap can differ from the system-wide 90th percentile.

Other PFAS detected in EPA's nationwide testing (UCMR 5), not charted because the figure isn't a compliance result: PFBA, PFBS, PFHpA, PFHxA, PFHxS and PFPeA.

EPA kept its 4 ppt limits for PFOA and PFOS. Utilities must meet them by 2029; EPA has proposed letting systems request until 2031. In May 2026, EPA proposed withdrawing its national limits for PFNA, PFHxS, GenX (HFPO-DA) and a combined limit for PFAS mixtures. The proposal isn't final yet; EPA plans to decide in 2026. New Jersey's own PFNA limit is unaffected. (Status as of November 2026.)

Compare the Veolia Water New Jersey, Hackensack system with other New Jersey water systems in one table of 2025 PFAS results, or see hardness across the same systems.

Filters certified for PFOA

If you want to reduce PFOA at home, look for a filter certified to NSF/ANSI Standard 53 or 58 with a PFOA reduction claim, and check the claim on the certifier's own listing. Certification shows the filter reduces these chemicals; it doesn't guarantee levels below the federal limit.

We list a filter only when its certification document backs the claim (how we choose products). Replace cartridges on schedule; a used-up filter stops working.

Towns served by the Veolia Water New Jersey, Hackensack system

• Union City tap water
• North Bergen tap water
• West New York tap water
• Hackensack tap water
• Teaneck tap water
• Fort Lee tap water
• Englewood tap water
• Bergenfield tap water
• Paramus tap water
• Cliffside Park tap water
• Secaucus tap water
• Palisades Park tap water
• Rutherford tap water
• Dumont tap water
• Weehawken tap water
• New Milford tap water
• Tenafly tap water
• Fairview tap water
• Edgewater tap water
• Ridgefield Park tap water
• Hasbrouck Heights tap water
• River Edge tap water
• Guttenberg tap water
• Ridgefield tap water
• Westwood tap water
• Little Ferry tap water
• Hillsdale tap water
• Wood-Ridge tap water
• Maywood tap water
• East Rutherford tap water
• River Vale tap water
• Leonia tap water
• Washington Township tap water
• Cresskill tap water
• Bogota tap water
• Closter tap water
• Oradell tap water
• Emerson tap water
• Carlstadt tap water
• Old Tappan tap water
• Rochelle Park tap water
• Norwood tap water
• Englewood Cliffs tap water

Water sources

Our customers in portions of Bergen and Hudson counties receive their water primarily from four reservoirs – the Oradell, Woodcliff Lake, and Lake Tappan reservoirs in Bergen County, New Jersey, and Lake DeForest in Rockland County, New York.