Tap water · NJ
Hoboken Water Utility
EPA system ID NJ0905001 · serves about 52,000 people. Every US utility must publish an annual water quality report — here’s the official one (2025), and below it, our plain-English translation.
Read the official report →What Hoboken Water Utility found in 2025
35 detected analytes from the utility’s own annual report, hand-normalized — 2 were near or over a limit (flagged below).
| Detected | Level | Limit | % of limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manganese | 0.24 ppm | 0.05 ppm | 480% | Over limit |
| Sodium | 91 ppm | 50 ppm | 182% | Over limit |
| Total trihalomethanes (TTHMs) | 63.1 ppb | 80 ppb | 79% | Within limit |
| Total Dissolved Solids | 352 ppm | 500 ppm | 70% | Within limit |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | 40.2 ppb | 60 ppb | 67% | Within limit |
| Chloride | 140 ppm | 250 ppm | 56% | Within limit |
| Aluminum | 0.1 ppm | 0.2 ppm | 50% | Within limit |
| Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) | 5.1 ppt | 13 ppt | 39% | Within limit |
| Hardness (as CaCO3) | 98 ppm | 250 ppm | 39% | Within limit |
| Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) | 4.4 ppt | 14 ppt | 31% | Within limit |
| Color | 3 CU | 10 CU | 30% | Within limit |
| Chlorine as Cl2 | 1.05 ppm | 4 ppm | 26% | Within limit |
| Iron | 0.05 ppm | 0.3 ppm | 17% | Within limit |
| Lead (90th percentile) | 2.19 ppb | 15 ppb | 15% | Within limit |
| Total Coliforms | 0.6 % positive | 5 % positive | 12% | Within limit |
| Arsenic | 0.57 ppb | 5 ppb | 11% | Within limit |
| Sulfate | 22 ppm | 250 ppm | 9% | Within limit |
| Fluoride | 0.3 ppm | 4 ppm | 8% | Within limit |
| Copper (90th percentile) | 0.072 ppm | 1.3 ppm | 6% | Within limit |
| Total Nitrate and Nitrite | 0.35 ppm | 10 ppm | 4% | Within limit |
| Nitrate as N | 0.35 ppm | 10 ppm | 4% | Within limit |
| Barium | 0.02 ppm | 2 ppm | 1% | Within limit |
| Conductivity | 703 umhos | — | — | No federal limit |
| Alkalinity | 67 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Calcium | 25 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| pH | 7.7 SU | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) — UCMR5 monitoring | 7.3 ppt | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) — UCMR5 monitoring | 6.5 ppt | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorohexanesulfonic acid (PFHxS) — UCMR5 monitoring | 4.9 ppt | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluoropentanoic acid (PFPeA) — UCMR5 monitoring | 3.8 ppt | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorohexanoic acid (PFHxA) — UCMR5 monitoring | 3.3 ppt | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorohexanesulfonic acid (PFHxS) — 2025 monitoring | 2.5 ppt | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorohexanoic acid (PFHxA) — 2025 monitoring | 0.7 ppt | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorobutane sulfonic acid (PFBS) — 2025 monitoring | 0.6 ppt | — | — | No federal limit |
| Turbidity (highest) | 0.28 NTU | — | — | No federal limit |
Levels and limits are as printed in the utility’s report (“limit” is the EPA MCL, action level, residual limit, or secondary guideline that applies to that row; “ND” = not detected). Utilities publish these reports annually — we re-check every covered utility each July, after the federal publication deadline. Detected doesn’t mean dangerous — most detections sit far below their limits. This is education, not medical advice.
Your tap, if it were a bottle
How Hoboken Water Utility water stacks up against the bottled aisle
Same minerals, same units — the tap values below come from the utility’s report, placed next to the closest match in our bottled-water database.
| Mineral | Your tap | Closest bottled match |
|---|---|---|
| Total dissolved solids | 352 mg/L | Flow at 353 mg/L |
| Calcium | 25 mg/L | Eska at 24 mg/L |
| Sodium | 91 mg/L | Villavicencio at 110 mg/L |
| Sulfate | 22 mg/L | Acqua Panna at 22 mg/L |
| Chloride | 140 mg/L | Staatl. Fachingen at 139 mg/L |
Tap values are the headline levels from the utility’s annual report (often a highest or average figure); bottled values are label- or report-derived. A closest match is a numeric comparison, not an equivalence or an endorsement.
Zip codes covered
07030
Boundary zips partially served by other systems are deliberately unlisted — check your exact zip.