Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0094953

Sherres Kitchen

Serves 161 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateWiscasset, Maine
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 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 2011: 37 violations. 1 over the limit · 25 missed or late tests · 11 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-04-04.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
25Missed or late test
11Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 94% 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

200520102011 · Notice or report: 12015 · Over the limit: 12015 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 22015 · Notice or report: 220152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 22016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Missed or late test: 42021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
3% over the limit · 168% missed or late test · 2530% notice or report · 11

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

Open now (3)

  1. 2024-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2022-06-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2011-06-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2024-03-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2024-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2023-08-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2023-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2023-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2023-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2023-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2023-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2022-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2022-06-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  12. 2022-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2022-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2021-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  16. 2021-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2021-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2021-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2020-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2020-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2019-09-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2019-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2018-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2018-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
Show the other 12 entries
  1. 2017-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2017-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2017-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2016-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2016-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  6. 2016-02-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2016-01-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2015-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  9. 2015-11-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  11. 2015-09-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2011-06-09Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

System details

Population served161
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityWiscasset
EPA ZIP on file04578

Areas served

  • Wiscasset, Lincoln County

Reading this record

Sherres Kitchen is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 161 people in Wiscasset, 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.