Camden Wyoming Sewer And Water Authority, DE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.1 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Camden Wyoming Sewer And Water Authority at a glance
Camden Wyoming Sewer And Water Authority serves about 5,000 people through 2,519 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Kent County, Delaware. EPA system ID: DE0000563; phone on file: 302-697-6372. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (2.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Camden Wyoming Sewer And Water Authority is 2.9 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.9 ppb |
Against other Delaware systems
Of the 196 Delaware systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.31 ppb; 1 are over 15 ppb right now and 14 have gone over at some point. Camden Wyoming Sewer And Water Authority's 2.1 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in Delaware and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
57 other systems share Kent County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Camden Wyoming Sewer And Water Authority. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Dover Water Department | 39,491 | 2 ppb |
| Camden Pump District | 17,208 | 0 (not detected) |
| Garrison Lake Pump District | 17,148 | 0.62 ppb |
| Smyrna Water Department | 11,813 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dover Air Force Base | 11,000 | 5 ppb |
| Milford Water Department | 9,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Church Creek (Awc) | 9,654 | 0 (not detected) |
| Artesian Northern Kent Regional | 7,014 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harrington Water Department | 3,562 | 0 (not detected) |
| Felton Water Department | 1,591 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Camden, DE
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Camden, DE may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Camden Wyoming Sewer And Water Authority whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.