Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0092566

Owens General Store

Serves 34 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateLincolnville, Maine
Nothing open right now.

On record since 2020: 61 violations. 34 missed or late tests · 27 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-28.

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
34Missed or late test
27Notice 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

2005201020152020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Notice or report: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 72021 · Missed or late test: 72021 · Missed or late test: 72021 · Missed or late test: 72021 · Notice or report: 32021 · Notice or report: 32022 · Missed or late test: 92022 · Missed or late test: 92022 · Missed or late test: 92022 · Missed or late test: 92022 · Missed or late test: 92022 · Notice or report: 132022 · Notice or report: 132022 · Notice or report: 132022 · Notice or report: 132022 · Notice or report: 132022 · Notice or report: 132022 · Notice or report: 132023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Missed or late test: 82023 · Notice or report: 32023 · Notice or report: 32024 · 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: 52025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
56% missed or late test · 3444% notice or report · 27

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2025-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2024-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2024-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2024-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2024-03-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2024-03-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2024-03-24Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2024-03-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2024-02-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2024-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2023-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2023-11-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2023-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2023-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2023-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2023-05-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2023-05-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2023-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2023-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2022-12-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
Show the other 34 entries
  1. 2022-12-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2022-11-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2022-09-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2022-08-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2022-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2022-07-18Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2022-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2022-06-05Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2022-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2022-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2022-03-31Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2022-03-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2022-03-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2022-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2022-02-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2022-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2022-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2021-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2021-11-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2021-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2021-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  24. 2021-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2021-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  26. 2021-07-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  27. 2021-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  28. 2021-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  29. 2021-01-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  30. 2020-12-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  31. 2020-11-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  32. 2020-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  33. 2020-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  34. 2020-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served34
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityLincolnville
EPA ZIP on file04849

Areas served

  • Lincolnville, Waldo County

Reading this record

Owens General Store is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 34 people in Lincolnville, 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.