Community Water System · PWS ME0090940
Mars Hill and Blaine Water Company
Operator location Mars Hill, Maine - 66% of 596 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,500 served per SDWIS.
- 1,500
- People served (this PWS)
- 596
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 395
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Mars Hill and Blaine Water Company standing, high SDWIS violation third
66% of 596 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 66% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #15,931 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Mars Hill and Blaine Water Company sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (596), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,500 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 66% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #15,931 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #78 of 193
- Population · ME
- 596
- Total EPA violations on record
- 66%
- 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
- 600
- County
- Aroostook
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 395
- Monitoring Violations
- 192
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 316 | 2023 |
| TTHM | MCL | 72 | 2021 |
| Nitrate | MR | 11 | 2023 |
| Chromium | MR | 8 | 2023 |
| Fluoride | MR | 8 | 2023 |
| Mercury | MR | 8 | 2023 |
| Nickel | MR | 8 | 2023 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 8 | 2023 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 8 | 2023 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 8 | 2023 |
| Arsenic | MR | 8 | 2023 |
| Barium | MR | 8 | 2023 |
| Cadmium | MR | 8 | 2023 |
| Selenium | MR | 8 | 2023 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 7 | 2011 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 6 | 2023 |
| Public Notice | Other | 4 | 2021 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Benzene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Toluene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Styrene | MR | 4 | 2021 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 4 | 2021 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Mars Hill and Blaine Water Company has 596 recorded EPA violations, 97% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 3% carry more. 66% of this system's own violations are health-based (395 of 596), and it ranks #15,931 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)
596 Higher than most more violations than 97% 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 Mars Hill and Blaine Water Company
395 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for ME0090940.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
596 violations · 1,500 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Mars Hill and Blaine Water Company
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