Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0001642

The Village Inn

Serves 316 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBelgrade Lakes, Maine
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Revised Total Coliform Rule. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2015: 24 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 17 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-06-01.

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
1Treatment lapse1 open
17Missed or late test
6Notice or report

More violations on record than 87% 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

200520102015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Notice or report: 120202023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Missed or late test: 62024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
4% treatment lapse · 171% missed or late test · 1725% notice or report · 6

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

What you can do

  • Total Coliform Bacteria: If your water system has coliform violations, consider boiling water or using bottled water until the system confirms the issue is resolved. Contact your water provider for their latest test results and any boil-water advisories.

Open now (1)

  1. 2024-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  3. 2025-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-12-13Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2024-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2024-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2024-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2024-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2024-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleTTOpen
  11. 2024-05-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2024-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2023-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2023-11-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2023-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2019-09-08Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  17. 2019-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2019-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2018-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2016-12-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  22. 2016-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  24. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served316
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBelgrade Lakes
EPA ZIP on file04918

Areas served

  • Belgrade, Kennebec County

Reading this record

The Village Inn is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 316 people in Belgrade Lakes, 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.