Community Water System · PWS ME0091630
Winter Harbor Water District
Operator location Winter Harbor, Maine - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 700 people served; 52 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 700
- People served (this PWS)
- 52
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 7
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Winter Harbor Water District standing, mid SDWIS violation third
700 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 13% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #24,311 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Winter Harbor Water District lands in the middle third by violation volume (52), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (700; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 13% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #24,311 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #138 of 193
- Population · ME
- 52
- Total EPA violations on record
- 13%
- 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
- 280
- County
- Hancock
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 3
- Monitoring Violations
- 36
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 8 | 2011 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 2012 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2011 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2011 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Asbestos | MR | 4 | 2012 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 4 | 1997 |
| Endothall | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| Diquat | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2023 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 3 | 1998 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Winter Harbor Water District has 52 recorded EPA violations, 57% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 42% carry more. 13% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 52), and it ranks #24,311 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)
52 Around the middle fewer violations than 42% 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 Winter Harbor Water District
EPA SDWIS lists 700 people served and 280 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
52 violations · 700 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Winter Harbor Water District
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Maine compares on the same EPA violation measures. Maine systems
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