Drinking water quality · 2023

· Verified

· PWSID CA1910047

What's in Hawthorne-city Water Dept. — San Jose, Ca, CA tap water

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Water quality score
91/ 100Good

Every one of the 13 core regulated contaminants reported for Hawthorne-city Water Dept. — San Jose, Ca, CA came in below its federal limit.

  • !13 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 14 never appear in this report
  • Nothing over a federal limit
  • No open federal violations
+How this score is calculated

Every system starts at 100. Points come off for measured levels, for the federal violation record, and for how much of the core regulated set the utility actually reported. All three inputs are the utility's own published numbers and EPA's own records.

  • 0  contaminants at or above a federal limit
  • 0  contaminants within 20% of a limit
  • 0  open health-based violations
  • 0  open monitoring / reporting violations
  • 0  health-based violations resolved in the last 5 years
  • 9  core regulated contaminants never reported (13/27)

A 90–100 · B 80–89 · C 70–79 · D 60–69 · F below 60. A system reporting under a third of the core set is capped at C however clean its numbers look — a short report is not a clean bill of health.

Full grading methodology, constant for constant →
Nothing here is over a federal limit. Every contaminant reported in this year's data came in below its federal threshold, and none sat within 20% of one.
+33 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
ContaminantMeasured
Bromate7.9 ug/L
Chloramine2.5 mg/L
TTHM45 ug/L
Chlorine Total1.8 mg/L
HAA519 ug/L
Fluoride0.7 mg/L
Turbidity0.08 NTU
Barium124 ug/L
Nitrate0.6 mg/L
Copper0.07 mg/L
Chlorate80 ug/L
N-Nitrosodi-n-butylamine2.5 ug/L
NDMA2.5 ng/L
PerchlorateNot detected ug/L
Aluminum93 ug/L
Boron170 ug/L
Calcium68 mg/L
Lead0.0 mg/L
Lithium40 ug/L
Magnesium26 mg/L
Potassium8.9 mg/L
Sodium105 mg/L
Escherichia coli (E. coli)0
Total Coliform0.1 %
Alkalinity290 mg/L
Hardness272 mg/L
pH8.7
TOC2.6 mg/L
Total Dissolved Solids590 mg/L
Combined RadiumNot detected pCi/L
Gross AlphaNot detected pCi/L
Gross Beta Particle Activity4 pCi/L
Uranium2 pCi/L

What this report doesn't tell you

14 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Hawthorne-city Water Dept. — San Jose, Ca, CA's data. Absent is not the same as absent-from-the-water — it means nobody published a number.

ArsenicChromiumSeleniumAntimonyCadmiumMercuryThalliumBerylliumCyanideAtrazine / simazineTetrachloroethylene (PCE)Trichloroethylene (TCE)BenzenePFAS
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+Full detail: PFAS testing, water source, historical monitoring, and the federal violation record

Compliance history

Federal Safe Drinking Water Act violation & enforcement records (EPA SDWIS). A violation is a regulatory determination by the state or EPA — separate from the measured levels above.

  • Maximum contaminant level exceededHealth-based
    1 violation on record · most recent May 1997
    resolved

Source: EPA SDWIS / ECHO. View the full federal record on EPA ECHO ↗

Source: Hawthorne-city Water Dept. — San Jose, Ca, CA's 2023 Consumer Confidence Report — the annual drinking-water report every U.S. utility is required to publish. The numbers on this page are the utility's own. A water-quality report covers an entire service area, not a single address.
The grade at the top of this page is computed, not editorial. See exactly how we grade water systems — every deduction, every ceiling, every threshold.

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