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Community Water System · PWS ME0090230

Bridgton Water District

Operator location Bridgton, Maine - larger served population (> 3,309) at 3,660 people served; 48 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

3,660
People served (this PWS)
48
EPA violations (this PWS)
6
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Bridgton Water District standing, mid SDWIS violation third

3,660 people served (SDWIS) - larger served population (> 3,309). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 13% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #9,364 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Bridgton Water District lands in the middle third by violation volume (48), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is large (3,660; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 13% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#9,364 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#35 of 193
Population · ME
48
Total EPA violations on record
13%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)

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

System Details

System Type
Community
Owner Type
Local
Connections
1,464
County
Cumberland
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
6
Monitoring Violations
38
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MR 12 2018
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 12 2018
Lead and Copper Rule MR 7 2020
Coliform (TCR) MCL 6 2008
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 2002
Nitrate MR 3 1995
Public Notice Other 2 2017
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 2 2022

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Bridgton Water District has 48 recorded EPA violations, 55% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 44% carry more. 13% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 48), and it ranks #9,364 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

48 Around the middle fewer violations than 44% 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 Bridgton Water District

EPA SDWIS lists 3,660 people served and 1,464 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

48 violations · 3,660 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Bridgton Water District

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