Community Water System · PWSID ME0094501

Covered Bridge Apartments

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateKingfield, Maine
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On record since 1995: 16 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 9 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-04-23.

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
2Treatment lapse
9Missed or late test
5Notice or report

More violations on record than 81% 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

1995 · Missed or late test: 119951996 · Missed or late test: 12000200520102012 · Notice or report: 22012 · Notice or report: 22014 · Notice or report: 120152019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Treatment lapse: 22020 · Treatment lapse: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
13% treatment lapse · 256% missed or late test · 931% notice or report · 5

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 11 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1340 ppb as filed — a value this high in EPA's file is often µg/L entered as mg/L
624 ppb
240 ppb
12.9 ppb
12.9 ppb
1.3 ppb
1.3 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2025-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2025-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2024-07-01Alkalinity, TotalWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2023-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  6. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2021-07-01Alkalinity, TotalWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2021-01-01Alkalinity, TotalWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2020-07-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  10. 2020-03-02Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  11. 2019-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  12. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2012-02-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2012-01-16Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 1996-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  16. 1995-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections10
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityKingfield
EPA ZIP on file04947

Areas served

  • Guilford, Piscataquis County

Reading this record

Covered Bridge Apartments is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Kingfield, 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.