Community Water System · PWSID ME0090270

Buckfield Village Corporation

Serves 425 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentBuckfield, Maine
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 1998: 19 violations. 3 over the limit · 3 treatment lapses · 9 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-03-01.

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

3Over the limit
3Treatment lapse
9Missed or late test
4Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 84% 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

1998 · Missed or late test: 11999 · Treatment lapse: 11999 · Missed or late test: 120002005 · Treatment lapse: 22005 · Treatment lapse: 22005 · Missed or late test: 12005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Missed or late test: 12006 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 12014 · Over the limit: 22014 · Over the limit: 22015 · Over the limit: 120152017 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
16% over the limit · 316% treatment lapse · 347% missed or late test · 921% notice or report · 4

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)2015-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0650 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.1×)2014-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0703 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2014-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0725 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

12.7 ppb
3 ppb
2.1 ppb
2.1 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  3. 2024-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2024-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2021-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  6. 2017-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2015-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0650 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2014-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0703 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2014-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0725 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2011-10-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2006-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  12. 2006-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2005-10-13Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  14. 2005-09-25Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  15. 2005-07-11Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  16. 2005-06-04Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  17. 1999-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  18. 1999-01-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  19. 1998-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served425
Service connections170
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBuckfield
EPA ZIP on file04220

Areas served

  • Buckfield, Oxford County

Reading this record

Buckfield Village Corporation is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 425 people in Buckfield, 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.