Veolia Water New Jersey Hackensack, NJ
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.8 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Veolia Water New Jersey Hackensack at a glance
Veolia Water New Jersey Hackensack serves about 792,713 people through 193,600 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Bergen,Hudson County, New Jersey. EPA system ID: NJ0238001; phone on file: 201-599-6020. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 5.2 ppb from 11 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Veolia Water New Jersey Hackensack is 18.4 ppb across 18 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 5.8 ppb |
| 2025 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2024 | 9 ppb |
| 2023 | 7.08 ppb |
| 2023 | 5.38 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.55 ppb |
| 2022 | 7.67 ppb |
| 2021 | 6.12 ppb |
| 2021 | 6.14 ppb |
| 2020 | 8.11 ppb |
| 2020 | 9.14 ppb |
| 2019 | 11.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 15.6 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 18.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 10 ppb |
| 2017 | 11.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 14.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 14.3 ppb over 10 |
How Veolia Water New Jersey Hackensack compares
Of the 605 New Jersey systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 5 are over 15 ppb right now and 52 have gone over at some point. Veolia Water New Jersey Hackensack's 5.8 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in New Jersey and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Haworth, NJ may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Veolia Water New Jersey Hackensack whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. More in what a past exceedance means today.