Community Water System · PWS ME0091000
Milo Water District
Operator location Milo, Maine - 92% of 380 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,720 served per SDWIS.
- 1,720
- People served (this PWS)
- 380
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 351
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Milo Water District standing, high SDWIS violation third
92% of 380 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 92% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #14,810 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Milo Water District sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (380), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,720 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 92% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #14,810 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #70 of 193
- Population · ME
- 380
- Total EPA violations on record
- 92%
- 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
- 688
- County
- Piscataquis
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 346
- Monitoring Violations
- 25
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 5
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 191 | 2012 |
| TTHM | MCL | 155 | 2012 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 5 | 2024 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2010 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 3 | 1993 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 3 | 1993 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 3 | 1993 |
| Nickel | MR | 3 | 1993 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 3 | 1993 |
| Nitrite | MR | 3 | 2008 |
| Nitrate | MR | 3 | 2008 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Milo Water District has 380 recorded EPA violations, 93% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 7% carry more. 92% of this system's own violations are health-based (351 of 380), and it ranks #14,810 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)
380 Higher than most more violations than 93% 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 Milo Water District
351 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for ME0091000.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
380 violations · 1,720 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 Milo Water District
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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