City and town drinking water records

Water systems serving Bear, DE

2 community water systems have a mapped service area in Bear, DE. Artesian Water Company covers 48% of the area inside Bear's Census boundary and reports serving 231,114 people in all.

None of them had a health-based violation in the last 10 years.

2 rely mainly on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 148 lead lines, 452 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 64,903 lines of unknown material.

3 more systems are placed in Bear by EPA's town record because they have no service area map that lines up with their own records, so they are listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems

2

Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years

0

Systems with one unresolved

0

Lead service lines in inventories

148

Water systems serving Bear

2 systems

People served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.

System	Area	People served	Main source	Health-based violations, 10 years	Unresolved	Lead lines
Artesian Water Company	Covers 48% of Bear	231,114	Purchased surface water	0	0	148
Veolia Water Delaware, Inc	Covers 25% of Bear	100,495	Surface water	0	0	0

Systems placed by EPA's town record in Bear

3 systems

EPA has no service area map for these systems. They are placed by EPA's town record (EPA lists them serving this town), and without a map they are not counted in the figures above.

System	Area	People served	Main source	Health-based violations, 10 years	Unresolved	Lead lines
St Andrews Apartments	Town on record	360	Purchased groundwater	0	0	No inventory
St Andrews Apartment New Addition	Town on record	272	Purchased groundwater	0	0	No inventory
St Andrews Single Family Homes	Town on record	120	Purchased groundwater	0	0	No inventory

Other cities and towns in New Castle County

24 places

• Arden
• Ardencroft
• Ardentown
• Bellefonte
• Brookside
• Claymont
• Delaware City
• Edgemoor
• Elsmere
• Glasgow
• Greenville
• Hockessin
• Middletown
• Newark
• New Castle
• North Star
• Odessa
• Pike Creek
• Pike Creek Valley
• Port Penn
• St. Georges
• Townsend
• Wilmington
• Wilmington Manor

Back to New Castle County, DE

Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations