New Castle County, Delaware

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    68

  • Community Water Systems

    22

  • Systems with Violations

    3

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    1

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    9

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    11/03/2005

  • Population Served

    536,599

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    2.86%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    2

  • CWA Total Violations

    20

The American Community Survey

  • HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    728

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.33%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    570,567

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $85,309

  • PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES BELOW POVERTY LEVEL (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    3.1%

  • MALE

    277,558

  • FEMALE

    293,009

  • MEDIAN AGE

    39

  • MULTIRACIAL

    508,882

  • WHITE

    311,658

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    141,068

  • LATINO

    61,685

  • ASIAN

    33,239

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    491

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    188

To learn more about individual water systems and violations please visit the echo.epa.gov interactive map for this county here: https://echo.epa.gov/facilities/facility-search/results?p_st=DE&p_fips=10003 Other .gov state water resources: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/de/nwis/wu Additional state water resources:https://dnrec.delaware.gov/water/commercial-government/water-allocation/data/https://www.waterqualitydata.us/