Community Water System · PWSID MD0090009

Lodgecliffe Distribution System

Serves 300 peopleGroundwater PurchasedOwner: PrivateCambridge, Maryland
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On record since 2003: 7 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

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 lapse
0Missed or late test
6Notice or report

More violations on record than 86% of active water systems in Maryland. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2003 · Notice or report: 120052007 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 120102012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 1201520202024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
14% treatment lapse · 186% notice or report · 6

Across Maryland, 72% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% are water over a limit.

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  3. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  4. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served300
Service connections103
Water sourceGroundwater Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityCambridge
EPA ZIP on file21613

Areas served

  • Dorchester County

Reading this record

Lodgecliffe Distribution System is a community water system that draws from groundwater purchased and serves about 300 people in Cambridge, Maryland. 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.