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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS ME0094917

Pb Guide Service

Operator location Skowhegan, Maine - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 40 people served; 491 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

40
People served (this PWS)
491
EPA violations (this PWS)
75
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Pb Guide Service standing, high SDWIS violation third

40 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 15% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Pb Guide Service sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (491), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (40; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 15% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

491
Total EPA violations on record
15%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
40
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
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
1
County
Somerset
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
68
Monitoring Violations
402
Treatment Tech Violations
7

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Nitrate MR 161 2013
Coliform (TCR) MR 157 2015
Nitrite MR 73 2022
Coliform (TCR) MCL 68 2009
Public Notice Other 9 2024
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 8 2021
Revised Total Coliform Rule TT 7 2024
Revised Total Coliform Rule RPT 4 2017
E. COLI MR 3 2023

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Pb Guide Service has 491 recorded EPA violations, 95% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 5% carry more. 15% of this system's own violations are health-based (75 of 491), 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)

491 Higher than most more violations than 95% 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 Pb Guide Service

EPA SDWIS lists 40 people served and 1 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

491 violations · 40 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.

4 peers

What to do with Pb Guide Service

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
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
  • Find and compare another public water system by name or PWSID. Search systems

EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater