Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0006417

Rockwood Cottages

Serves 30 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateRockwood, 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 2024: 13 violations. 8 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-06-01.

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
8Missed or late test
5Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 76% 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

20052010201520202024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Missed or late test: 42025 · Notice or report: 42025 · Notice or report: 42025 · Notice or report: 42025 · Notice or report: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
62% missed or late test · 838% notice or report · 5

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-06-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-03-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2025-03-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2025-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2025-01-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2024-12-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2024-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2024-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file

System details

Population served30
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityRockwood
EPA ZIP on file04478

Areas served

  • Rockwood Strip, Somerset County

Reading this record

Rockwood Cottages is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 30 people in Rockwood, 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.