Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0016772

Loris Cafe

Serves 190 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateLiberty, Maine
Nothing open that measures the water, but 4 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 2012: 56 violations. 1 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 27 missed or late tests · 26 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

1Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
27Missed or late test
26Notice or report4 open

More violations on record than 97% 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

200520102012 · Missed or late test: 12012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 220152018 · Over the limit: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 22019 · Notice or report: 22020 · Treatment lapse: 22020 · Treatment lapse: 22020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Notice or report: 32020 · Notice or report: 32020 · Notice or report: 320202021 · Missed or late test: 12021 · Notice or report: 22021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Notice or report: 22023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Notice or report: 52024 · Notice or report: 52024 · Notice or report: 52024 · Notice or report: 52024 · Notice or report: 52025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Notice or report: 42025 · Notice or report: 42025 · Notice or report: 42025 · Notice or report: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
2% over the limit · 14% treatment lapse · 248% missed or late test · 2746% notice or report · 26

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

Open now (4)

  1. 2025-06-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2025-04-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2025-01-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2025-06-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2025-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2025-04-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2025-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2025-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2025-01-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  8. 2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2024-06-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2024-05-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2024-05-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2024-03-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2024-03-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2024-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2024-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2024-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2024-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2023-11-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2023-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2023-08-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2023-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2023-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2023-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2022-07-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2022-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 28 entries
  1. 2022-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2021-03-27Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2020-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2020-06-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2020-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2020-05-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2020-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2020-04-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2020-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2020-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2020-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2020-01-27Revised Total Coliform Rule ×2TTBack in compliance
  14. 2020-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2019-12-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2019-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2019-07-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2019-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2018-12-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2018-11-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2018-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  22. 2018-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2018-09-29E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  24. 2015-02-14Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2014-01-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  26. 2013-01-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  27. 2012-04-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  28. 2012-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served190
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityLiberty
EPA ZIP on file04949

Areas served

  • Liberty, Waldo County

Reading this record

Loris Cafe is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 190 people in Liberty, 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.