Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0094960

Northern Maine Brewing Company LLC

Serves 170 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateCaribou, Maine
Nothing open that measures the water, but 5 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 2008: 17 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 10 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-06-13.

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
10Missed or late test
5Notice or report5 open

More violations on record than 82% 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

20052008 · Over the limit: 1201020152017 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 22025 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% over the limit · 16% treatment lapse · 159% missed or late test · 1029% notice or report · 5

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

Open now (5)

  1. 2025-06-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-03-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-12-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2024-08-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2020-04-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-06-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-03-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2025-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2024-12-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  5. 2024-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2024-08-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2024-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2024-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2024-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2023-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2022-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2020-04-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  14. 2019-12-09Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  15. 2019-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2017-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2008-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 11.75 MG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served170
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityCaribou
EPA ZIP on file04736

Areas served

  • Caribou, Aroostook County

Reading this record

Northern Maine Brewing Company LLC is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 170 people in Caribou, 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.