Delaware Correctional Center, DE Water Quality
Is Delaware Correctional Center's water safe to drink?
Delaware Correctional Center has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,000 people through 4 service connections.
How this compares nationally
Delaware Correctional Center has 7 violations on record in total, 2 of them health-based - ranking it 6,749th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 48th percentile nationally.
How Delaware Correctional Center compares within DE
DE's 42 covered systems average 2.0 health-based violations each; Delaware Correctional Center carries 2, not more than typical for the state. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Delaware Correctional Center is from 2022-01-07 (health-based: 2000-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 04/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Delaware Correctional Center'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 this data is and is not
Everything on this page is Delaware Correctional Center's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and Delaware Correctional Center's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,749th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.