Community Water System · PWS ME0090550
Fort Fairfield Utilities District
Operator location Fort Fairfield, Maine - 46% of 74 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 2,025 served per SDWIS.
- 2,025
- People served (this PWS)
- 74
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 34
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Fort Fairfield Utilities District standing, mid SDWIS violation third
46% of 74 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%). Population rank #13,439 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Fort Fairfield Utilities District lands in the middle third by violation volume (74), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,025 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). 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.
- #13,439 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #60 of 193
- Population · ME
- 74
- Total EPA violations on record
- 46%
- 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
- 810
- County
- Aroostook
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 26
- Monitoring Violations
- 40
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 8
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 14 | 2005 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 12 | 2008 |
| TTHM | MR | 12 | 2015 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 12 | 2015 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 10 | 2022 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 4 | 2013 |
| Nitrate | MR | 3 | 1995 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | TT | 2 | 2024 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 2 | 2016 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Fort Fairfield Utilities District has 74 recorded EPA violations, 66% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 33% carry more. 46% of this system's own violations are health-based (34 of 74), and it ranks #13,439 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)
74 Around the middle fewer violations than 33% 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 Fort Fairfield Utilities District
34 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for ME0090550.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
74 violations · 2,025 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Fort Fairfield Utilities 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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