Dover Air Force Base, DE Water Quality
Is Dover Air Force Base's water safe to drink?
Dover Air Force Base has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 11,000, over 180 connections.
Dover Air Force Base's record against the rest of the country
Dover Air Force Base has 6 violations on record in total, 3 of them health-based - ranking it 5,487th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 57th percentile nationally.
How Dover Air Force Base compares within DE
Dover Air Force Base's 3 health-based violations sit above the DE average of 2.0, across 42 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Dover Air Force Base is from 2013-01-09 (health-based: 2004-01-05). Last reported to EPA: 04/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Dover Air Force Base'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
Dover Air Force Base's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and Dover Air Force Base's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,487th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.