What's in DOVER WATER DEPARTMENT's water?
DOVER WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 39,491 people through 13,408 service connections.
How this compares nationally
DOVER WATER DEPARTMENT has 14 violations on record in total, 11 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,840th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 86th percentile nationally.
How DOVER WATER DEPARTMENT compares within DE
Among the 25 DE systems in this dataset, the average is 2.2 health-based violations - DOVER WATER DEPARTMENT's 11 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for DOVER WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2015-01-07 (health-based: 2006-01-05). Last reported to EPA: 04/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
DOVER WATER DEPARTMENT'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 DOVER WATER DEPARTMENT's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 11 health-based violations on file for DOVER WATER DEPARTMENT - 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.