Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0011403

Skips Lounge

Serves 50 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBuxton, 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 2003: 82 violations. 44 missed or late tests · 38 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-03-06.

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
44Missed or late test
38Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 99% 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

2003 · Notice or report: 1200520102013 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Notice or report: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 82018 · Missed or late test: 82018 · Missed or late test: 82018 · Missed or late test: 82018 · Notice or report: 52018 · Notice or report: 52018 · Notice or report: 52019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Missed or late test: 122019 · Notice or report: 122019 · Notice or report: 122019 · Notice or report: 122019 · Notice or report: 122019 · Notice or report: 122019 · Notice or report: 122020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Missed or late test: 72020 · Notice or report: 72020 · Notice or report: 72020 · Notice or report: 72020 · Notice or report: 720202021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Missed or late test: 92021 · Notice or report: 62021 · Notice or report: 62021 · Notice or report: 62022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Notice or report: 32022 · Notice or report: 32025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
54% missed or late test · 4446% notice or report · 38

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

Open now (3)

  1. 2016-06-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2016-02-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2015-10-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-03-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2022-02-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2022-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2022-01-22Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2022-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2021-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2021-11-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2021-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2021-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2021-09-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2021-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2021-08-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2021-07-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2021-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2021-05-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2021-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2021-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2021-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2021-01-21Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  21. 2020-12-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2020-11-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2020-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2020-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2020-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
Show the other 57 entries
  1. 2020-05-14Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  2. 2020-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2020-04-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2020-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2020-03-20Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  6. 2020-03-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  7. 2020-02-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2020-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2020-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2019-12-27Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2019-12-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2019-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2019-11-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2019-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2019-10-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2019-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2019-09-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2019-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2019-08-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2019-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2019-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2019-06-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2019-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2019-05-02Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  25. 2019-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  26. 2019-04-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  27. 2019-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  28. 2019-03-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  29. 2019-02-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  30. 2019-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  31. 2019-01-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  32. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  33. 2019-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  34. 2018-12-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  35. 2018-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  36. 2018-11-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  37. 2018-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  38. 2018-10-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  39. 2018-09-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  40. 2018-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  41. 2018-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  42. 2018-07-30Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  43. 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  44. 2018-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  45. 2018-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  46. 2018-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  47. 2017-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  48. 2017-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  49. 2016-06-03Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  50. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  51. 2016-02-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  52. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  53. 2016-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  54. 2015-10-28Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  55. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  56. 2013-03-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  57. 2003-06-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served50
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBuxton
EPA ZIP on file04093

Areas served

  • Buxton, York County

Reading this record

Skips Lounge is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 50 people in Buxton, 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.