Community Water System · PWS ME0090330
Castine Water Department
Operator location Castine, Maine - 79% of 48 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 983 served per SDWIS.
- 983
- People served (this PWS)
- 48
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 38
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Castine Water Department standing, mid SDWIS violation third
79% of 48 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 79% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #20,009 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Castine Water Department lands in the middle third by violation volume (48), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (983; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 79% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #20,009 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #100 of 193
- Population · ME
- 48
- Total EPA violations on record
- 79%
- 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
- 393
- County
- Hancock
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 38
- Monitoring Violations
- 8
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | MCL | 26 | 2008 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 8 | 2008 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 1991 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 4 | 2009 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 4 | 2009 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Castine Water Department has 48 recorded EPA violations, 55% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 44% carry more. 79% of this system's own violations are health-based (38 of 48), and it ranks #20,009 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
Health-based violations on Castine Water Department
38 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for ME0090330.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
48 violations · 983 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Castine Water Department
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