Sussex County, Delaware

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    251

  • Community Water Systems

    113

  • Systems with Violations

    31

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    0

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    46

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    11/22/1994

  • Population Served

    357,332

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    1.15%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    1

  • CWA Total Violations

    18

The American Community Survey

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

    254

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.254%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    240,668

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $75,406

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

    4.3%

  • MALE

    117,079

  • FEMALE

    123,589

  • MEDIAN AGE

    51.3

  • MULTIRACIAL

    217,819

  • WHITE

    179,073

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    25,847

  • LATINO

    22,849

  • ASIAN

    3,098

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    724

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    39

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=10005 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/