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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS ME0004727

Big Rock Ski Area/Restaurant

Operator location Mars Hill, Maine - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 174 people served; 149 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

174
People served (this PWS)
149
EPA violations (this PWS)
4
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Big Rock Ski Area/Restaurant standing, high SDWIS violation third

174 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Big Rock Ski Area/Restaurant sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (149), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (174; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

149
Total EPA violations on record
3%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
174
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
2
County
Aroostook
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
4
Monitoring Violations
133
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 93 2015
Nitrate MR 20 2023
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 17 2025
Public Notice Other 11 2025
Revised Total Coliform Rule MCL 4 2025
Nitrite MR 3 2015

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Big Rock Ski Area/Restaurant has 149 recorded EPA violations, 81% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 19% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 149), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

149 Higher than most more violations than 81% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Population served record for Big Rock Ski Area/Restaurant

EPA SDWIS lists 174 people served and 2 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

149 violations · 174 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

Cross-state systems with comparable violation load

Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.

4 peers

What to do with Big Rock Ski Area/Restaurant

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Maine compares on the same EPA violation measures. Maine systems
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater