Is HAMPDEN WATER DISTRICT's water safe to drink?
HAMPDEN WATER DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 4,628 people through 1,851 service connections.
HAMPDEN WATER DISTRICT's record against the rest of the country
7 total violations and 1 health-based ones put HAMPDEN WATER DISTRICT at the 34th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,483 of 12,903.
How HAMPDEN WATER DISTRICT compares within ME
ME's 63 covered systems average 6.0 health-based violations each; HAMPDEN WATER DISTRICT carries 1, not more than typical for the state. 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 HAMPDEN WATER DISTRICT is from 2021-01-07 (health-based: 2004-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 05/13/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HAMPDEN WATER DISTRICT'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
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
HAMPDEN WATER DISTRICT's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for HAMPDEN WATER DISTRICT - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.