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What is in the water at 19947

2 public water systems serve this ZIP code in the federal records. Everything below comes from EPA monitoring data, and everything missing is named.

GEORGETOWN WATER DEPARTMENT

PWSID DE0000592 · DE

PFAS and lithium

11 compounds detected at or above the reporting limit under EPA’s UCMR 5 monitoring, across 25 samples.

CompoundHighest detectedSamplesMost recent
6:2 FTS0.18 µg/L19/9/2025
PFPeA0.11 µg/L39/9/2025
PFHxA0.068 µg/L39/9/2025
PFHpA0.039 µg/L39/9/2025
PFOA0.036 µg/L39/9/2025
8:2 FTS0.03 µg/L19/9/2025
PFBA0.024 µg/L19/9/2025
PFNA0.02 µg/L39/9/2025
PFOS0.014 µg/L39/9/2025
PFBS0.0075 µg/L23/5/2025
PFHxS0.0051 µg/L23/5/2025

A detection is a measurement, not a violation and not a health finding. EPA states that UCMR 5 results do not indicate compliance or non-compliance with any limit.

Health-based violations

No open health-based violation on record. This covers MCL, treatment technique and MRDL violations in SDWIS that have not been returned to compliance. It excludes monitoring and reporting violations, which are the large majority nationally, so this is not “no violations”, and SDWIS completeness varies by state.

Hardness

Too few readings to state a hardness. 1 station(s), 1 result(s). Below two stations and five results this page will not state a number: a median of two readings from one creek is not your water.

ARTESIAN NORTHERN SUSSEX REGIONAL

PWSID DE0020003 · DE · serves 5,511 people

PFAS and lithium

4 compounds detected at or above the reporting limit under EPA’s UCMR 5 monitoring, across 5 samples.

CompoundHighest detectedSamplesMost recent
PFPeA0.0083 µg/L29/8/2025
PFOA0.0057 µg/L13/4/2025
PFHxA0.0057 µg/L13/4/2025
PFBS0.0043 µg/L13/4/2025

A detection is a measurement, not a violation and not a health finding. EPA states that UCMR 5 results do not indicate compliance or non-compliance with any limit.

Health-based violations

No open health-based violation on record. This covers MCL, treatment technique and MRDL violations in SDWIS that have not been returned to compliance. It excludes monitoring and reporting violations, which are the large majority nationally, so this is not “no violations”, and SDWIS completeness varies by state.

Hardness

Too few readings to state a hardness. 1 station(s), 1 result(s). Below two stations and five results this page will not state a number: a median of two readings from one creek is not your water.

What this report cannot tell you

Every figure describes water at a sampling point: a treatment plant, an entry point to the distribution system, or a monitoring station. None of it describes water arriving at your tap. Plumbing between the two can add lead and copper, and if your home was built before 1986 a test kit tells you something no federal dataset can.

Sources: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence (final release, frozen July 2026) · EPA SDWIS health-based violations · USGS and state monitoring via the Water Quality Portal · EPA Public Water System Service Area Boundaries v3. Compiled 2026-09-01.