Sand Hill Acres, DE
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 13.7 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Sand Hill Acres at a glance
Sand Hill Acres serves about 384 people through 128 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Sussex County, Delaware. EPA system ID: DE0000115; phone on file: 302-875-5931. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Sand Hill Acres's lead record
That is up 1.3 ppb from 12.4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sand Hill Acres is 13.7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 13.7 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 12.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 6.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 6 ppb |
How Sand Hill Acres compares
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. Sand Hill Acres's 13.7 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Delaware and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
96 other systems share Sussex County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Sand Hill Acres. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rehoboth Pump District (Tui) | 81,417 | 0.71 ppb |
| Bethany Bay Pump District | 52,684 | 2.3 ppb |
| Dewey Beach Water Department | 31,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rehoboth Beach Water Department | 25,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Artesian Southern Sussex Regional | 20,145 | 2 ppb |
| Sussex Shores Water Company | 12,450 | 6.9 ppb |
| Bethany Beach Water Department | 12,000 | 4.9 ppb |
| Long Neck Water Company | 11,000 | 1.1 ppb |
| Lewes Board Of Public Works | 9,627 | 21.6 ppb |
| Millsboro Water Department | 8,568 | 5.2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Laurel, 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 Sand Hill Acres 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.