SEAFORD WATER DEPARTMENT: EPA violation history, explained
SEAFORD WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 6,699 people get their water from it, across 2,375 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
SEAFORD WATER DEPARTMENT has 10 violations on record in total, 7 of thems health-based - ranking it 2,859th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 78th percentile nationally.
How SEAFORD WATER DEPARTMENT compares within DE
DE's 25 covered systems average 2.2 health-based violations each; SEAFORD WATER DEPARTMENT carries 7, more than typical for the state. 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 SEAFORD WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2020-12-10 (health-based: 2020-12-10). Last reported to EPA: 04/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
SEAFORD 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:
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228)
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: Tetrachloroethylene
The most severe category on record is radionuclides, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what SEAFORD WATER DEPARTMENT 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. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 10 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.