Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0094006

Louisiana-Pacific Corp-New Limerick

Serves 150 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateHoulton, Maine
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 2014: 61 violations. 58 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-04-10.

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
0Treatment lapse
58Missed or late test1 open
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 98% 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

200520102014 · Missed or late test: 442014 · Missed or late test: 442014 · Missed or late test: 442014 · Missed or late test: 442014 · Missed or late test: 442014 · Missed or late test: 442014 · Missed or late test: 442014 · Missed or late test: 442014 · Missed or late test: 442014 · Missed or late test: 442014 · Missed or late test: 44201520202021 · Missed or late test: 132021 · Missed or late test: 132021 · Missed or late test: 132021 · Missed or late test: 132022 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Notice or report: 32025
One square ≈ 4 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
95% missed or late test · 585% notice or report · 3

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 9 results on file · action level 15 ppb

60 ppb
9 ppb
8.8 ppb
6.6 ppb
6.6 ppb
4.3 ppb
2.8 ppb
1.9 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-04-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2022-04-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2022-04-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  5. 2021-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  6. 2021-01-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2021-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2021-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2021-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2021-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2021-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2021-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2021-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2021-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2021-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2021-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2021-01-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2014-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2014-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2014-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2014-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2014-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2014-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2014-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2014-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 36 entries
  1. 2014-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2014-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2014-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2014-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2014-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  6. 2014-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2014-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2014-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  9. 2014-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2014-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2014-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2014-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2014-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2014-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  15. 2014-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2014-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2014-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2014-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2014-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  20. 2014-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  21. 2014-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2014-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2014-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2014-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  25. 2014-01-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  26. 2014-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  27. 2014-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  28. 2014-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  29. 2014-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  30. 2014-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  31. 2014-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  32. 2014-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  33. 2014-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  34. 2014-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  35. 2014-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  36. 2014-01-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served150
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityHoulton
EPA ZIP on file04730

Areas served

  • New Limerick, Aroostook County

Reading this record

Louisiana-Pacific Corp-New Limerick is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 150 people in Houlton, 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.