Forest Grove Pump District, DE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
About Forest Grove Pump District
Forest Grove Pump District serves about 330 people through 119 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Kent County, Delaware. EPA system ID: DE0000960; phone on file: 302-242-6485. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3.9 ppb from 5 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Forest Grove Pump District is 5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2024 | 5 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0.5 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Forest Grove Pump District's 1.1 ppb sits at the 69th percentile in Delaware and the 57th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
57 other systems share Kent County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Forest Grove Pump District. 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) |
| Camden Wyoming Sewer And Water Authority | 5,000 | 2.1 ppb |
| Harrington Water Department | 3,562 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Dover, 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 Forest Grove Pump District 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.