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Hancock County, ME drinking water systems

20 community water systems serve Hancock County, ME, reporting 18,444 people served in all. A system that also serves other counties counts all of its customers here.

9 of them (45%) had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 7 systems still have one unresolved.

12 rely mainly on groundwater and 8 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 2 lead lines, 28 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 816 lines of unknown material.

9 more systems are placed in Hancock County, ME by the county their records name because they have no service area map that lines up with their own records, so they are listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems
20
People served, sum of each system's own figure
18,444
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
9
Systems with one unresolved
7
Lead service lines in inventories
2

Water systems serving Hancock County

20 systems

People served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Town of Bar Harbor- Water Division Bar Harbor 4,443 Surface water 0 0 0
Ellsworth Water Department Ellsworth 3,910 Surface water 5 2 2
Southwest Harbor Water & Sewer District Southwest Harbor and land outside it 2,480 Surface water 7 1 0
Maine Water Company Bucksport Division Bucksport 1,700 Surface water 0 0 0
Mount Desert Water Dist North Northeast Harbor and land outside it 1,623 Surface water 0 0 0
Castine Water Department Castine 983 Groundwater under direct influence 0 0 0
Mount Desert Water Dist -Seal Outside cities and towns 865 Surface water 0 0 0
Winter Harbor Water District Winter Harbor 700 Groundwater 0 3 0
Franklin Water Department Outside cities and towns 443 Groundwater 0 1 0
Long Pond Water District Outside cities and towns 308 Surface water 20 0 0
Cold Spring Water Company Outside cities and towns 305 Groundwater 0 2 0
Sun Hancock Heights- East Outside cities and towns 158 Groundwater 0 0 0
Silver Lake Estates Outside cities and towns 110 Groundwater 0 0 0
Birch Tree Meadows MHP Outside cities and towns 105 Groundwater 3 0 0
Sherwood Forest MHP Outside cities and towns 68 Groundwater 2 3 0
Blue Hill Terrace Blue Hill 60 Groundwater 4 0 0
Crescent Mobile Home Park Outside cities and towns 55 Groundwater 0 0 0
Spinsfield Commons Outside cities and towns 45 Groundwater 3 0 0
Birch Haven Trailer Park Outside cities and towns 43 Groundwater 1 6 0
Harbor View I & II Blue Hill 40 Groundwater 2 0 0

Systems placed by county record in Hancock County

9 systems

EPA has no service area map for some of these systems, and the maps it has for the others do not line up with their own records. They are placed by the county their records name (the counties EPA lists them serving, or the county coded in their IDs where EPA lists none), and without a map they are not counted in the figures above.

System Serves People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
Stonington Water Company County on record 683 Groundwater 5 0 0
Sun Hancock Heights-West County on record 155 Groundwater 0 0 0
Parker Ridge Retirement Community County on record 120 Groundwater 0 2 0
Hancock Village MHP County on record 73 Groundwater 1 2 0
Deer Run Apts County on record 60 Groundwater 0 0 0
Harriman Cove Park LLC County on record 45 Groundwater 0 1 0
Benjamin River Apts County on record 45 Groundwater 0 0 0
Stonington Manor County on record 44 Groundwater 6 0 0
South Penobscot Water Association County on record 38 Groundwater 0 0 0

Cities and towns in Hancock County

8 places

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Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations