Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0004937

Asticou Inn

Serves 760 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateNortheast Harbor, Maine
Nothing open right now.

On record since 1999: 6 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 3 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-06-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
2Notice or report

More violations on record than 54% 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

1999 · Missed or late test: 1200020052010201520202022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · 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.
17% treatment lapse · 150% missed or late test · 333% notice or report · 2

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTSystem inactive
  2. 2023-05-31Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationSystem inactive
  3. 2022-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 1999-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularSystem inactive

System details

Population served760
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityNortheast Harbor
EPA ZIP on file04662

Areas served

  • Mount Desert, Hancock County

Reading this record

Asticou Inn is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 760 people in Northeast Harbor, 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.