Community Water System · PWSID ME0091230

Paris Utility District

Serves 2,940 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentSouth Paris, Maine
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On record since 2005: 3 violations. 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2018-08-01.

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
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 32% 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

2005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 1201020152018 · Notice or report: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% notice or report · 3

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

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 5 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.7 ppb
2.5 ppb
2.1 ppb
2.1 ppb
2.1 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2018-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2006-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  3. 2005-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,940
Service connections1,176
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CitySouth Paris
EPA ZIP on file04281

Areas served

  • Paris, Oxford County

Reading this record

Paris Utility District is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 2,940 people in South Paris, 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.