Voshells Cove Pump District, DE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
Voshells Cove Pump District at a glance
Voshells Cove Pump District serves about 267 people through 89 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: DE0000125; phone on file: 302-242-6485. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (1.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Voshells Cove Pump District is 2 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Voshells Cove Pump District 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. Voshells Cove Pump District's 2 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Delaware and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
57 other systems share Kent County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Voshells Cove 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) |
Next steps for Dover, DE
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 Voshells Cove 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.