Artesian Water Company, DE Water Quality
Artesian Water Company: EPA violation history, explained
Artesian Water Company has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 231,114 people get their water from it, across 85,347 connections.
How this compares nationally
Artesian Water Company has 8 violations on record in total, 3 of them health-based - ranking it 5,353th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 59th percentile nationally.
How Artesian Water Company compares within DE
Among the 42 DE systems in this dataset, the average is 2.0 health-based violations - Artesian Water Company's 3 is above that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Artesian Water Company is from 2015-01-07 (health-based: 2011-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 04/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Artesian Water Company's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what Artesian Water Company reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. This record - 3 health-based violations on file for Artesian Water Company - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.