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Community Water System · PWS ME0090640

Guilford-Sangerville Utilities District

Operator location Sangerville, Maine - 21% of 33 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 1,535 served per SDWIS.

1,535
People served (this PWS)
33
EPA violations (this PWS)
7
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Guilford-Sangerville Utilities District standing, mid SDWIS violation third

21% of 33 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 21% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #15,673 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Guilford-Sangerville Utilities District lands in the middle third by violation volume (33), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,535 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 21% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#15,673 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#77 of 193
Population · ME
33
Total EPA violations on record
21%
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
614
County
Piscataquis
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
2
Monitoring Violations
23
Treatment Tech Violations
5

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 8 2023
TTHM MR 8 2023
Lead and Copper Rule MR 7 2023
Lead and Copper Rule TT 5 2024
Coliform (TCR) MCL 2 1996

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Guilford-Sangerville Utilities District has 33 recorded EPA violations, 45% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 54% carry more. 21% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 33), and it ranks #15,673 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)

33 Lower than most fewer violations than 54% 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 Guilford-Sangerville Utilities District

7 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for ME0090640.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

33 violations · 1,535 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Guilford-Sangerville 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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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