Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0003446

Matagamon Wilderness Campground

Serves 106 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivatePatten, Maine
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On record since 2012: 88 violations. 43 missed or late tests · 45 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-12-13.

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
43Missed or late test
45Notice or report

More violations on record than 99% 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: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 22014 · Notice or report: 22015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Notice or report: 82015 · Notice or report: 82015 · Notice or report: 82015 · Notice or report: 82015 · Notice or report: 82015 · Notice or report: 82015 · Notice or report: 82015 · Notice or report: 820152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Notice or report: 22018 · Notice or report: 22019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Notice or report: 52019 · Notice or report: 52019 · Notice or report: 52019 · Notice or report: 52019 · Notice or report: 52020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Notice or report: 52020 · Notice or report: 52020 · Notice or report: 52020 · Notice or report: 52020 · Notice or report: 520202021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Notice or report: 72021 · Notice or report: 72021 · Notice or report: 72021 · Notice or report: 72021 · Notice or report: 72021 · Notice or report: 72021 · Notice or report: 72022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Notice or report: 42022 · Notice or report: 42022 · Notice or report: 42022 · Notice or report: 42023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 42024 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Notice or report: 52024 · Notice or report: 52024 · Notice or report: 52024 · Notice or report: 52024 · Notice or report: 52025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
49% missed or late test · 4351% notice or report · 45

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-12-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2024-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2024-11-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2024-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2024-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2024-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2024-03-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2024-02-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2024-02-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2023-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2023-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2023-06-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2023-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2023-05-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2023-03-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2023-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2023-02-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2023-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2022-12-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2022-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2022-11-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 62 entries
  1. 2022-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2022-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2022-06-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2022-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2022-03-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2022-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2021-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2021-08-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2021-05-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2021-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2021-04-11Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2021-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2021-03-27Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2021-03-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2021-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2021-01-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2021-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2020-12-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  19. 2020-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2020-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2020-09-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2020-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2020-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2020-05-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2020-03-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  26. 2020-02-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  27. 2020-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  28. 2020-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  29. 2019-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  30. 2019-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  31. 2019-09-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  32. 2019-08-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  33. 2019-06-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  34. 2019-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  35. 2019-05-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  36. 2019-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  37. 2019-04-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  38. 2019-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  39. 2019-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  40. 2019-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  41. 2018-12-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  42. 2018-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  43. 2018-07-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  44. 2018-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  45. 2016-10-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  46. 2016-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  47. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  48. 2016-02-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  49. 2015-12-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  50. 2015-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Repeat Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  51. 2015-10-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  52. 2015-09-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  53. 2015-05-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  54. 2015-04-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  55. 2015-03-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  56. 2015-02-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  57. 2015-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  58. 2015-01-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  59. 2014-10-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  60. 2014-08-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  61. 2013-08-07Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  62. 2012-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served106
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityPatten
EPA ZIP on file04765

Areas served

  • Penobscot County

Reading this record

Matagamon Wilderness Campground is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 106 people in Patten, 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.