The Contented Sole
On record since 2024: 6 violations. 4 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-07.
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.
More violations on record than 54% 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
Across Maine, 59% of violations are missed or late tests and 3% are water over a limit.
Every violation on record
- 2025-08-07E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
- 2025-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
- 2025-05-31Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
- 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
- 2024-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
System details
| Population served | 220 |
| Service connections | 1 |
| Water source | Groundwater |
| System type | Transient Non-Community |
| Owner | Private |
| Status | Active |
| City | New Harbor |
| EPA ZIP on file | 04554 |
Areas served
- Bristol, Lincoln County
Reading this record
The Contented Sole is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 220 people in New Harbor, 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.