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Is Ocean View, DE tap water safe?

Bethany Bay Pump District serves Ocean View, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Delaware’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Bethany Bay Pump District serves Ocean View. In EPA’s and Delaware’s records it has 1 result above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029 and 1 result above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: PFOS at 6.1 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

The water from Bethany Bay Pump District is soft to moderately hard depending on the source, 10 to 104 mg/L (0.6 to 6.1 grains per gallon). How Delaware’s water compares.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Bethany Bay Pump District’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Ocean View

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Delaware certifies.

The 3 labs Delaware certifies closest to Ocean View, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

Delaware Division of Public Health: Test kits for private well owners, for bacteria plus nitrate, nitrite, iron, fluoride, sodium, hardness and other minerals. Pick one up and bring it back on a weekday at state health offices, including Newark, Smyrna and Georgetown. No charge for the kit or the testing. Private Drinking Water, Delaware Health and Social Services.

All 13 certified labs for Delaware

ZIP codes in Ocean View

Which ZIP codes are in Ocean View: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: Delaware Office of Drinking Water, approved laboratories; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Ocean View

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