Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0005775

Meadowbrook Camping Area

Serves 377 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivatePhippsburg, 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 2002: 12 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 3 missed or late tests · 7 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-05-31.

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

1Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
7Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 75% 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

2002 · Notice or report: 1200520102011 · Notice or report: 1201520202023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 32024 · Notice or report: 32025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% over the limit · 18% treatment lapse · 125% missed or late test · 358% notice or report · 7

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2002-10-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-05-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2024-05-31Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2024-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2024-02-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2023-09-30Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  6. 2023-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2023-08-17E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  8. 2023-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2011-10-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2002-10-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

System details

Population served377
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityPhippsburg
EPA ZIP on file04562

Areas served

  • Phippsburg, Sagadahoc County

Reading this record

Meadowbrook Camping Area is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 377 people in Phippsburg, 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.