Transient Non-Community · PWSID ME0092826

West Branch Farms

Serves 135 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateMachias, Maine
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On record since 2022: 22 violations. 14 missed or late tests · 8 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-09-01.

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
0Treatment lapse
14Missed or late test
8Notice or report

More violations on record than 86% 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

20052010201520202022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Notice or report: 52023 · Notice or report: 52023 · Notice or report: 52023 · Notice or report: 52023 · Notice or report: 52024 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
64% missed or late test · 1436% notice or report · 8

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2024-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2024-05-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  4. 2024-05-19Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  5. 2024-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2024-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2024-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2023-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2023-08-06Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  10. 2023-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2023-05-12Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  12. 2023-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2023-03-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  14. 2023-02-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  15. 2023-02-17Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  16. 2023-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2022-12-15Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  18. 2022-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2022-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  20. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2022-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2022-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance

System details

Population served135
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMachias
EPA ZIP on file04654

Areas served

  • Machias, Washington County

Reading this record

West Branch Farms is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 135 people in Machias, 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.