Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0198212

Sebago Pine Water Assoc-Lower

Serves 40 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBillerica, Massachusetts
Nothing open that measures the water, but 4 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 2023: 14 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 3 missed or late tests · 9 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-28.

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
3Missed or late test1 open
9Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 89% of active water systems in Massachusetts. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

20052010201520202023 · Over the limit: 12023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 52024 · Notice or report: 52024 · Notice or report: 52024 · Notice or report: 52024 · Notice or report: 52025 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Notice or report: 32025 · Notice or report: 32025 · Notice or report: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
7% over the limit · 17% treatment lapse · 121% missed or late test · 364% notice or report · 9

Across Massachusetts, 79% of violations are missed or late tests and 4% are water over a limit.

Open now (4)

  1. 2025-07-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-05-31Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-09-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2025-05-31Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2025-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2024-09-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  5. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2024-05-31Public Notice ×5PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2023-08-31Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  8. 2023-08-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file

System details

Population served40
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBillerica
EPA ZIP on file01821

Areas served

  • Naples, Cumberland County

Reading this record

Sebago Pine Water Assoc-Lower is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 40 people in Billerica, Massachusetts. 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.