Selbyville Water Department, DE Water Quality
What's in Selbyville Water Department's water?
Selbyville 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 3,502 people through 2,321 service connections.
Selbyville Water Department's record against the rest of the country
8 total violations and 6 health-based ones put Selbyville Water Department at the 75th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 3,289 of 12,903.
Against the DE average
Selbyville Water Department's 6 health-based violations sit above the DE average of 2.0, across 42 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
Selbyville Water Department's most recent violation on record is dated 2020-01-10, with the most recent health-based one dated 2020-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 04/30/2026.
The concern categories on record
Selbyville 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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Tthm
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What Selbyville Water Department's record does not cover
This is what Selbyville 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. This record - 6 health-based violations on file for Selbyville 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.