Newark, DE
Our home city. City of Newark reservoir water, a pre-1960s core around Main Street and the University of Delaware, and newer development on the edges.
ZIPs: 19711, 19702, 19713, 19716, 19717
Newark plumbingPlumbing Service Areas Around Newark, Delaware
We work out of Newark and cover New Castle County plus nearby Cecil County, Maryland. The communities below are not interchangeable — water source, sewer, housing age and even the code authority change as you move across the map.
Why we treat these as different places
Most plumbing companies publish a list of town names and leave it there. That is not useful to you, because the plumbing under those towns is genuinely different. Within a twenty-minute drive of Newark you can move between four water suppliers, three wastewater arrangements, housing stock spanning 1900 to 2024, and — once you cross into Elkton — a different state's plumbing code entirely.
The pages below say what is actually under the ground in each place.
Primary service areas
These communities have their own pages covering local water, sewer, housing stock and the failures we see most often.
Bear
Late-1990s and 2000s subdivisions east of Newark along US-40, on county sewer with PVC laterals.
ZIPs: 19701, 19702
Distance: approx. 7 miles east of Newark
Glasgow
The DE-896 and US-40 corridor, mixing older ranch stock with newer townhome development.
ZIPs: 19702
Distance: approx. 5 miles southeast of Newark
Christiana
The Christiana Mall and ChristianaCare corridor — dense commercial alongside established residential.
ZIPs: 19702, 19713
Distance: approx. 5 miles east of Newark
Pike Creek
Established 1970s–1980s neighborhoods on rolling Piedmont ground north of Newark.
ZIPs: 19711
Distance: approx. 6 miles north of Newark
Hockessin
Larger lots near the Pennsylvania line where private wells and septic systems remain common.
ZIPs: 19707
Distance: approx. 8 miles north of Newark
Wilmington
Delaware's largest city — the oldest and most challenging housing stock in the service area.
ZIPs: 19801, 19802, 19803, 19804, 19805, 19806, 19807, 19808, 19809, 19810
Distance: approx. 12 miles northeast of Newark
Middletown
One of Delaware's fastest-growing towns, dominated by new-build subdivisions.
ZIPs: 19709
Distance: approx. 18 miles south of Newark
Elkton, MD
Cecil County, Maryland — a short run down Elkton Road but a different regulatory world.
ZIPs: 21921
Distance: approx. 9 miles southwest of Newark, across the Maryland line
Also covered
We take calls from these communities as well. They do not have dedicated pages yet — we would rather write something genuinely useful about each than publish a page with the town name swapped in.
- Brookside · 19713
- Ogletown · 19713
- Stanton · 19804
- Newport · 19804
- New Castle · 19720
- Wilmington Manor · 19720
- Claymont · 19703
- Greenville · 19807
- Marshallton · 19808
- Townsend · 19734
- North Star · 19711
- Chesapeake City, MD · 21915
Not on the list?
Call (302) 412-1353 and ask. We work roughly within 25 miles of Newark, and the list above is where we go most often rather than a hard boundary. If you are outside it, we will say so plainly rather than waste your time.
What changes from town to town
| Community | Water supply | Wastewater | Typical housing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newark | City of Newark (Newark Reservoir) | City of Newark sewer | Mixed, with a pre-1960s core |
| Bear | Artesian Water Company (most subdivisions) | New Castle County sewer | 1990s–2000s subdivision |
| Glasgow | Artesian Water Company | New Castle County sewer | Mixed 1960s ranch and 2000s townhome |
| Christiana | Artesian Water Company | New Castle County sewer | Mixed commercial and 1970s–1990s residential |
| Pike Creek | Mixed — public supply and some private wells | New Castle County sewer | 1970s–1980s |
| Hockessin | Private wells common; public supply in some developments | Septic systems common | Mixed, including large-lot and estate properties |
| Wilmington | City of Wilmington / Veolia depending on address | City of Wilmington sewer | Pre-1940 row home and early-century |
| Middletown | Town of Middletown / Artesian depending on development | Town of Middletown sewer | 2000s–present new construction |
| Elkton, MD | Town of Elkton / private wells outside town limits | Town of Elkton sewer; septic in the county | Mixed historic town center and county-area rural |
Water and sewer providers can vary street by street within a single community, particularly where a development was annexed or built out later. If you are not sure which applies to your address, tell us the street and we will tell you what we expect to find.
Questions about our service area
Newark itself (ZIP codes 19711, 19702, 19713, 19716 and 19717), plus Bear, Glasgow, Christiana, Pike Creek, Hockessin, Wilmington, Middletown, and Elkton in Cecil County, Maryland. We also take calls from Brookside, Ogletown, Stanton, Newport, New Castle, Claymont, Greenville, Marshallton, Townsend and surrounding communities.
Roughly a 25 mile radius of Newark. If you are outside it we will say so plainly rather than waste your time.
Travel is built into the diagnostic visit rather than billed separately for anywhere in our normal service area. The one honest caveat is distance and emergencies: Middletown is roughly eighteen miles south, so we schedule work there rather than treating it as a same-hour emergency run.
If water is flowing at 2am and you are at the far edge of our area, call us but also call someone closer. Getting the water shut off matters more than which company does the repair.
Elkton and the surrounding parts of Cecil County are about nine miles from Newark and an easy run. But the state line is a real boundary: Maryland code applies, permits go through the Town of Elkton or Cecil County rather than Delaware, and licensing runs through a separate board.
Tell us the property is in Maryland when you call. It changes the permit route, and it is better planned for at the start than discovered mid-job.
Questions? Just call.
A person answers and can usually tell you in a minute whether you need someone out, and roughly what it will cost.
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