Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0092683

Hansens Outpost

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBass Harbor, Maine
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Revised Total Coliform Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2018: 32 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 17 missed or late tests · 14 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-04-12.

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
1Treatment lapse1 open
17Missed or late test
14Notice or report

More violations on record than 93% 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

2005201020152018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42018 · Notice or report: 42019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42019 · Notice or report: 42020 · Missed or late test: 52020 · Missed or late test: 52020 · Missed or late test: 52020 · Missed or late test: 52020 · Missed or late test: 52020 · Notice or report: 32020 · Notice or report: 32020 · Notice or report: 320202021 · Missed or late test: 12021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% treatment lapse · 153% missed or late test · 1744% notice or report · 14

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

What you can do

  • Total Coliform Bacteria: If your water system has coliform violations, consider boiling water or using bottled water until the system confirms the issue is resolved. Contact your water provider for their latest test results and any boil-water advisories.

Open now (1)

  1. 2024-11-16Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2025-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2025-01-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2024-11-16Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  5. 2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2021-01-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2021-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2020-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2020-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2020-09-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2020-06-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2020-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2020-04-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2020-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2020-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2019-12-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2019-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2019-09-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2019-06-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2019-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2019-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2019-01-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2018-12-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2018-10-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 7 entries
  1. 2018-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2018-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2018-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2018-07-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2018-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2018-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBass Harbor
EPA ZIP on file04653

Areas served

  • Tremont, Hancock County

Reading this record

Hansens Outpost is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Bass Harbor, 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.