Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0092762

Sues Cobscook Bay Cafe

Serves 90 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateEdmunds Twp, Maine
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On record since 2021: 41 violations. 2 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 23 missed or late tests · 14 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-04-01.

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2Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
23Missed or late test
14Notice or report

More violations on record than 95% 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

20052010201520202021 · Over the limit: 12021 · Missed or late test: 102021 · Missed or late test: 102021 · Missed or late test: 102021 · Missed or late test: 102021 · Missed or late test: 102021 · Notice or report: 52021 · Notice or report: 52021 · Notice or report: 52022 · Over the limit: 12022 · Treatment lapse: 22022 · Missed or late test: 72022 · Missed or late test: 72022 · Missed or late test: 72022 · Missed or late test: 72022 · Notice or report: 72022 · Notice or report: 72022 · Notice or report: 72022 · Notice or report: 72023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 22024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% over the limit · 25% treatment lapse · 256% missed or late test · 2334% notice or report · 14

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2024-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2024-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2023-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2023-04-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  8. 2023-02-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2022-12-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2022-11-11Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  11. 2022-11-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2022-10-23Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  13. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2022-09-10Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2022-08-11Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  16. 2022-07-18Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2022-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2022-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2022-06-05Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  20. 2022-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2022-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  22. 2022-03-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  23. 2022-02-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  24. 2022-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
Show the other 15 entries
  1. 2021-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2021-10-04Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2021-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2021-09-25Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2021-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2021-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2021-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  8. 2021-06-11Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  9. 2021-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2021-05-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  11. 2021-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2021-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2021-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2021-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2021-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served90
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityEdmunds Twp
EPA ZIP on file04628

Areas served

  • Edmunds Twp, Washington County

Reading this record

Sues Cobscook Bay Cafe is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 90 people in Edmunds Twp, 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.