Delaware

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    455

  • Community Water Systems

    200

  • Systems with Violations

    55

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    1

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    2

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    87

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    11/22/1994

  • Population Served

    1,054,897

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    1.40%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    3

  • CWA Total Violations

    40

The American Community Survey

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

    1,101

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.283%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    993,635

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $79,325

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

    3.7%

  • MALE

    482,909

  • FEMALE

    510,726

  • MEDIAN AGE

    41.4

  • MULTIRACIAL

    894,939

  • WHITE

    597,532

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    213,516

  • LATINO

    98,696

  • ASIAN

    40,570

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    1,799

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    253

To learn more about individual water systems and violations please visit the echo.epa.gov interactive map for this state here: https://echo.epa.gov/facilities/facility-search/results?p_st=DE 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/