Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0004935

Mount Desert Campground

Serves 375 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateMount Desert, 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 2003: 2 violations. 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2014-09-18.

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
0Missed or late test
2Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 23% 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

2003 · Notice or report: 1200520102014 · Notice or report: 1201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% notice or report · 2

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2003-10-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2014-09-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2003-10-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

System details

Population served375
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMount Desert
EPA ZIP on file04660

Areas served

  • Mount Desert, Hancock County

Reading this record

Mount Desert Campground is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 375 people in Mount Desert, 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.