Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0006554

Aragosta at Goose Cove

Serves 226 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateDeer Isle, Maine
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 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 2015: 40 violations. 1 over the limit · 4 treatment lapses · 18 missed or late tests · 17 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-01.

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

1Over the limit
4Treatment lapse
18Missed or late test
17Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 95% 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

200520102015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Notice or report: 52017 · Notice or report: 52017 · Notice or report: 52017 · Notice or report: 52017 · Notice or report: 52018 · Over the limit: 12018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Treatment lapse: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 32025 · Notice or report: 32025 · Notice or report: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% over the limit · 110% treatment lapse · 445% missed or late test · 1843% notice or report · 17

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

Open now (3)

  1. 2025-07-01Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-07-01Public Notice ×3PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2024-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2023-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2023-07-01Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2022-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  11. 2022-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2021-09-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2021-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2021-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2021-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2020-11-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2020-10-22Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  18. 2020-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2020-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2019-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2019-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2018-10-29Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  23. 2018-09-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2018-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  25. 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
Show the other 12 entries
  1. 2017-11-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2017-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2017-09-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2017-07-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2017-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  7. 2017-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  8. 2017-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2016-09-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2015-08-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served226
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityDeer Isle
EPA ZIP on file04627

Areas served

  • Deer Isle, Hancock County

Reading this record

Aragosta at Goose Cove is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 226 people in Deer Isle, 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.