Church Creek (Awc), DE Water Quality
Is Church Creek (Awc)'s water safe to drink?
Church Creek (Awc) has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 9,654 people get their water from it, across 3,218 connections.
How this compares nationally
Church Creek (Awc) has 3 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,988th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 30th percentile nationally.
Against the DE average
Among the 42 DE systems in this dataset, the average is 2.0 health-based violations - Church Creek (Awc)'s 1 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
Church Creek (Awc)'s most recent violation on record is dated 2015-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2008-01-09. Last reported to EPA: 04/30/2026.
The concern categories on record
Church Creek (Awc)'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)
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 Church Creek (Awc)'s record does not cover
This is what Church Creek (Awc) 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 - 1 health-based violation on file for Church Creek (Awc) - 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.