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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS ME0005625

Balsam Cove Campground

Operator location Orland, Maine - 46% of 56 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 314 served per SDWIS.

314
People served (this PWS)
56
EPA violations (this PWS)
26
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Balsam Cove Campground standing, mid SDWIS violation third

46% of 56 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 46% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Balsam Cove Campground lands in the middle third by violation volume (56), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (314; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 46% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

56
Total EPA violations on record
46%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
314
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
1
County
Hancock
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
16
Monitoring Violations
21
Treatment Tech Violations
10

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 16 2006
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 11 2021
Revised Total Coliform Rule TT 10 2023
Revised Total Coliform Rule RPT 6 2021
Coliform (TCR) MR 6 2006
Nitrate MR 4 2020
Public Notice Other 3 2024

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Balsam Cove Campground has 56 recorded EPA violations, 60% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 40% carry more. 46% of this system's own violations are health-based (26 of 56), 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)

56 Around the middle fewer violations than 40% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Balsam Cove Campground

26 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for ME0005625.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

56 violations · 314 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Balsam Cove Campground

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
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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