Community Water System · PWS ME0090915
Loring Development Authority
Operator location Wiscasset, Maine - 86% of 544 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 180 served per SDWIS.
- 180
- People served (this PWS)
- 544
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 470
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Loring Development Authority standing, high SDWIS violation third
86% of 544 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 86% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Loring Development Authority sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (544), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (180; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 86% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 544
- Total EPA violations on record
- 86%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 180
- 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
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 72
- County
- Aroostook
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 407
- Monitoring Violations
- 58
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 63
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 407 | 2025 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 35 | 2014 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 20 | 2005 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 10 | 2024 |
| TTHM | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 9 | 2019 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 8 | 2024 |
| Public Notice | Other | 7 | 2024 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 4 | 2016 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 1995 |
| Endothall | MR | 3 | 2017 |
| Diquat | MR | 3 | 2017 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2024 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 1983 |
| Mercury | MR | 2 | 1983 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 1983 |
| Chromium | MR | 2 | 1983 |
| Barium | MR | 2 | 1983 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 1983 |
| Cadmium | MR | 2 | 1983 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 1983 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Loring Development Authority has 544 recorded EPA violations, 96% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 4% carry more. 86% of this system's own violations are health-based (470 of 544), 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)
544 Higher than most more violations than 96% 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 Loring Development Authority
470 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for ME0090915.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
544 violations · 180 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Loring Development Authority
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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