What's in BERWICK WATER DEPARTMENT's water?
BERWICK WATER DEPARTMENT had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. 2,845 people get their water from it, across 1,138 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
BERWICK WATER DEPARTMENT has 56 violations on record in total, 22 of thems health-based - ranking it 806th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 94th percentile nationally.
How BERWICK WATER DEPARTMENT compares within ME
Among the 63 ME systems in this dataset, the average is 6.0 health-based violations - BERWICK WATER DEPARTMENT's 22 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for BERWICK WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2022-04-10 (health-based: 2022-04-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/13/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
BERWICK WATER DEPARTMENT's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR); Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule; Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is BERWICK WATER DEPARTMENT's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and BERWICK WATER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 806th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.