Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0000687

Rsu 12 Whitefield Elementary School

Serves 211 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentSomerville, MaineServes a school or daycare
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On record since 1996: 47 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 37 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-07-01.

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
2Treatment lapse
37Missed or late test
8Notice or report

More violations on record than 97% 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

1996 · Missed or late test: 120002005201020152018 · Treatment lapse: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 232019 · Missed or late test: 232019 · Missed or late test: 232019 · Missed or late test: 232019 · Missed or late test: 232019 · Missed or late test: 232019 · Missed or late test: 232019 · Missed or late test: 232019 · Missed or late test: 232019 · Missed or late test: 232019 · Missed or late test: 232019 · Missed or late test: 232020 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 320202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Notice or report: 22022 · Notice or report: 22023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Notice or report: 42024 · Notice or report: 42025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% treatment lapse · 279% missed or late test · 3717% notice or report · 8

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 14 results on file · action level 15 ppb

6.1 ppb
3.3 ppb
2.9 ppb
2.8 ppb
2.7 ppb
2.1 ppb
2.1 ppb
1.9 ppb
1.8 ppb
1.8 ppb
1.2 ppb
1.2 ppb
0.71 ppb
0 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 6 results on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

2.9 mg/L
2.5 mg/L
2 mg/L
1.4 mg/L
1.4 mg/L
1.4 mg/L

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-04-18Public Notice ×4PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2024-03-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  4. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2023-07-01Lead and Copper Rule ×2Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper Rule ×2Water Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2022-04-08Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2021-12-30Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  9. 2021-11-23Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  10. 2021-07-07Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2021-07-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2020-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2020-07-01Alkalinity, TotalWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  14. 2020-01-01Alkalinity, TotalWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance
  15. 2019-09-29Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  16. 2019-04-01Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeBack in compliance
  17. 2019-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2019-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2019-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2019-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2019-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2019-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2019-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2019-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2019-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 15 entries
  1. 2019-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2019-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2019-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2019-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2019-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2019-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2019-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2019-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2019-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2019-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2019-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2019-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2018-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  14. 2018-04-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance
  15. 1996-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served211
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CitySomerville
EPA ZIP on file04348

Areas served

  • Whitefield, Lincoln County

Reading this record

Rsu 12 Whitefield Elementary School is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 211 people in Somerville, 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.