Community Water System · PWS ME0091320
Quantabacook Water District
Operator location Harrington, Maine - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 303 people served; 361 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 303
- People served (this PWS)
- 361
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 3
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Quantabacook Water District standing, high SDWIS violation third
303 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 1% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Quantabacook Water District sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (361), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (303; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 1% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 361
- Total EPA violations on record
- 1%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 303
- 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
- 121
- County
- Washington
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 3
- Monitoring Violations
- 354
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 56 | 2013 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 16 | 2016 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| Chlordane | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| Dalapon | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| Picloram | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| Endrin | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| Simazine | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| Atrazine | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| LASSO | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| Diquat | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 10 | 1997 |
| Aldicarb sulfoxide | MR | 8 | 1997 |
| Aldicarb sulfone | MR | 8 | 1997 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 8 | 1997 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 8 | 1997 |
| Aldicarb | MR | 8 | 1997 |
| Nitrate | MR | 7 | 2003 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Quantabacook Water District has 361 recorded EPA violations, 93% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 7% carry more. 1% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 361), 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)
361 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
Population served record for Quantabacook Water District
EPA SDWIS lists 303 people served and 121 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
361 violations · 303 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 Quantabacook Water District
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