Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0094483

Bullwinkles Family Steakhouse

Serves 210 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateWaldoboro, 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 2008: 43 violations. 1 over the limit · 23 missed or late tests · 19 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-01-17.

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
23Missed or late test
19Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 96% 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

20052008 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102011 · Notice or report: 12012 · Notice or report: 32012 · Notice or report: 32012 · Notice or report: 32015 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 320202021 · Over the limit: 12021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Notice or report: 52021 · Notice or report: 52021 · Notice or report: 52021 · Notice or report: 52021 · Notice or report: 52022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
2% over the limit · 153% missed or late test · 2344% notice or report · 19

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

Open now (2)

  1. 2022-08-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2008-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-01-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2024-12-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2024-08-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2024-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2024-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2022-08-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  10. 2022-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2021-09-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2021-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2021-08-23Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  14. 2021-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2021-07-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  17. 2021-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2021-04-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2021-03-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2021-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2020-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2020-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2020-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2019-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2019-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
Show the other 18 entries
  1. 2019-02-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2019-01-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2018-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2018-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2018-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2017-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2017-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2016-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2016-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2015-11-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2015-10-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2012-12-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2012-01-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2012-01-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2011-06-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2010-07-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2008-11-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

System details

Population served210
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityWaldoboro
EPA ZIP on file04572

Areas served

  • Waldoboro, Lincoln County

Reading this record

Bullwinkles Family Steakhouse is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 210 people in Waldoboro, 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.