Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0094913

Dunkin Donuts-Lyman

Serves 171 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateMetheun, Massachusetts
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 2016: 32 violations. 1 over the limit · 25 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-04-06.

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
25Missed or late test
6Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 95% of active water systems in Massachusetts. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 120202023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 222024 · Missed or late test: 222024 · Missed or late test: 222024 · Missed or late test: 222024 · Missed or late test: 222024 · Missed or late test: 222024 · Missed or late test: 222024 · Missed or late test: 222024 · Missed or late test: 222024 · Missed or late test: 222024 · Missed or late test: 222024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% over the limit · 178% missed or late test · 2519% notice or report · 6

Across Massachusetts, 79% of violations are missed or late tests and 4% are water over a limit.

Open now (2)

  1. 2025-04-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-04-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-04-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-03-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2024-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2024-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2024-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2024-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2024-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2024-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2024-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2024-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2024-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2024-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2024-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2024-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2024-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2024-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2024-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2024-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 7 entries
  1. 2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2023-09-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2023-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2019-09-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2019-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2017-03-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2016-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance

System details

Population served171
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMetheun
EPA ZIP on file01844

Areas served

  • Lyman, York County

Reading this record

Dunkin Donuts-Lyman is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 171 people in Metheun, Massachusetts. 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.