Community Water System · PWS ME0091416
Scarborough Gardens
Operator location Cumberland, Maine - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 45 people served; 109 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 45
- People served (this PWS)
- 109
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 23
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Scarborough Gardens standing, high SDWIS violation third
45 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 21% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Scarborough Gardens sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (109), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (45; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 21% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 109
- Total EPA violations on record
- 21%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 45
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 18
- County
- Cumberland
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 23
- Monitoring Violations
- 63
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 33 | 2013 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 19 | 2012 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 16 | 2021 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 10 | 2021 |
| Public Notice | Other | 9 | 2014 |
| Nitrate | MR | 7 | 2004 |
| Nitrite | MR | 5 | 2004 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 4 | 2016 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 2 | 1992 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Scarborough Gardens has 109 recorded EPA violations, 75% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 25% carry more. 21% of this system's own violations are health-based (23 of 109), 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)
109 Around the middle fewer violations than 25% 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 Scarborough Gardens
EPA SDWIS lists 45 people served and 18 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
109 violations · 45 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 Scarborough Gardens
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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