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Dixfield Water & Sewer Dept

What EPA’s and CDC’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
1,415 people
Connections
565
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Dixfield, ME
County
Oxford
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

04224

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and CDC’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, plus lead and copper, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

Nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic and haloacetic acids (HAA5): Maine’s yearly averages per water system, as CDC’s Environmental Public Health Tracking Network publishes them, 2020 to 2023, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Fluoride, chromium (total) and uranium: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Jan. 18, 2012 to Dec. 9, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Below EPA’s limits4

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.79ppm

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2019

2019 average: 0.68 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.79 ppm, in 2015, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. Its highest single sample was 1.0 ppm. In 2019, the latest year on file, its 12 samples averaged 0.68 ppm.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.1ppm

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.1 ppm, in 2023, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.82 ppm, in 2014.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

2.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2023

2023 average: 2.5 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.6 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2023, the latest year on file, it averaged 2.5 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 2.2 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.62ppb

Highest yearly average, 2014 to 2017

2017: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.62 ppb, in 2014, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. In 2017, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
  • Lead
  • Uranium

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 3 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Nitrate, total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic and haloacetic acids (HAA5) results here are Maine’s yearly averages as CDC publishes them, from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Fluoride, chromium (total) and uranium come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Dixfield Water & Sewer Dept’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; CDC’s yearly averages for Maine cover 2020 to 2023; EPA’s compliance samples are from Jan. 18, 2012 to Dec. 9, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Dixfield Water & Sewer Dept’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Maine certifies.

The 3 labs Maine certifies closest to the area Dixfield Water & Sewer Dept serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

Maine Health and Environmental Testing Laboratory: Well water test kits ordered online, from a bacteria-only test to full panels for new wells and home sales. The lab must receive the sample within 30 hours of collection. The basic safety test is $42, bacteria alone $27, first-draw lead $32, and the fuller well tests $127 to $147. Maine Private Well and Radiological Water and Air Test.

All 53 certified labs for Maine

Sources

PWSID ME0090460. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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