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Community Water System · PWS ME0091650

Winthrop Utilities District

Operator location Winthrop, Maine - 59% of 59 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 2,750 served per SDWIS.

2,750
People served (this PWS)
59
EPA violations (this PWS)
35
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Winthrop Utilities District standing, mid SDWIS violation third

59% of 59 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 59% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #11,234 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Winthrop Utilities District lands in the middle third by violation volume (59), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,750 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 59% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#11,234 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#45 of 193
Population · ME
59
Total EPA violations on record
59%
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
1,100
County
Kennebec
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
28
Monitoring Violations
24
Treatment Tech Violations
7

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 28 2006
TTHM MR 12 2020
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 12 2020
Lead and Copper Rule TT 4 1998
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 3 1998

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Winthrop Utilities District has 59 recorded EPA violations, 61% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 39% carry more. 59% of this system's own violations are health-based (35 of 59), and it ranks #11,234 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)

59 Around the middle fewer violations than 39% 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 Winthrop Utilities District

35 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for ME0091650.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

59 violations · 2,750 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Winthrop Utilities 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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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater