Community Water System · PWSID NJ1604001

Hawthorne Water Department

Serves 19,458 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentHawthorne, New Jersey
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2006: 26 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 5 missed or late tests · 19 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-06-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test
19Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 90% of active water systems in New Jersey. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

20052006 · Treatment lapse: 120102013 · Missed or late test: 120152018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Notice or report: 32021 · Notice or report: 32022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Notice or report: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 112024 · Notice or report: 112024 · Notice or report: 112024 · Notice or report: 112024 · Notice or report: 112024 · Notice or report: 112025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% treatment lapse · 219% missed or late test · 573% notice or report · 19

Across New Jersey, 74% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

5.5 ppb
4.2 ppb
3.1 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2021-09-25Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-06-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-06-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-05-01Public Notice ×5PN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2024-01-14Public Notice ×6PN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2022-06-09Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2022-03-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2022-01-10Groundwater RuleFailure To Address ContaminationBack in compliance
  8. 2022-01-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2022-01-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  10. 2021-10-12Groundwater RuleFailure to Consult with StateBack in compliance
  11. 2021-09-25Public NoticePN Violation without NPDWR ViolationOpen
  12. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2019-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  14. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2018-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2013-08-28E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  17. 2006-04-19Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance

System details

Population served19,458
Service connections6,449
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityHawthorne
EPA ZIP on file07506

Areas served

    Reading this record

    Hawthorne Water Department is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 19,458 people in Hawthorne, New Jersey. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

    Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

    Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.