What's in SOUTH BERWICK WATER DISTRICT's water?
SOUTH BERWICK 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 3,722 people through 1,489 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
15 total violations and 7 health-based ones put SOUTH BERWICK WATER DISTRICT at the 78th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,775 of 12,903.
How SOUTH BERWICK WATER DISTRICT compares within ME
SOUTH BERWICK WATER DISTRICT's 7 health-based violations sit above the ME average of 6.0, across 63 systems statewide. 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 SOUTH BERWICK WATER DISTRICT is from 2019-06-12 (health-based: 2018-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/13/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
SOUTH BERWICK 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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Arsenic
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what SOUTH BERWICK WATER DISTRICT reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and SOUTH BERWICK WATER DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,775th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.