Community Water System · PWSID ME0095630

Canton Point Park

Serves 88 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateHartford, 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 2005: 44 violations. 37 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-07-01.

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
0Treatment lapse
37Missed or late test
7Notice or report1 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

2005 · Notice or report: 1200520102012 · Missed or late test: 12012 · Notice or report: 42012 · Notice or report: 42015 · Missed or late test: 120152018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 262019 · Missed or late test: 262019 · Missed or late test: 262019 · Missed or late test: 262019 · Missed or late test: 262019 · Missed or late test: 262019 · Missed or late test: 262019 · Missed or late test: 262019 · Missed or late test: 262020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 420202021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 3 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
84% missed or late test · 3716% notice or report · 7

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

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 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

0.9 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2022-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  3. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2021-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  5. 2021-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  6. 2020-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  7. 2020-04-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2020-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  10. 2019-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  11. 2019-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2019-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2019-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2019-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2019-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2019-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2019-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2019-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2019-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2019-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2019-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2019-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2019-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2019-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2019-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 18 entries
  1. 2019-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2019-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2019-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2019-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2019-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2019-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2019-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2019-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2019-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2018-11-16E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2018-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2015-05-13E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  14. 2012-12-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2012-12-06Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2012-10-15E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  17. 2012-07-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served88
Service connections35
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityHartford
EPA ZIP on file04220

Areas served

  • Canton, Oxford County

Reading this record

Canton Point Park is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 88 people in Hartford, 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.