Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0019196

A Place to Eat

Serves 36 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateOakfield, Maine
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2014: 16 violations. 1 over the limit · 7 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-11-19.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
7Missed or late test
8Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 81% of active water systems in Maine. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Over the limit: 12015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Missed or late test: 42015 · Notice or report: 42015 · Notice or report: 42015 · Notice or report: 42015 · Notice or report: 420152020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% over the limit · 144% missed or late test · 750% notice or report · 8

Across Maine, 59% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.

Open now (2)

  1. 2023-06-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2021-01-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-11-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2023-06-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2023-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2023-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2021-01-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  6. 2020-10-15E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2015-12-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2015-12-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2015-11-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2015-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  12. 2015-09-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  14. 2015-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2015-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2014-08-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served36
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityOakfield
EPA ZIP on file04763

Areas served

  • Oakfield, Aroostook County

Reading this record

A Place to Eat is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 36 people in Oakfield, Maine. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.