WATER SOURCE
We purchase our water from the Bingham Water
District where it is drawn from a 75’ gravel packed
well located in the pump station across the river from
Bingham in Concord Township. Bingham’s water
does not require treatment. We maintain 190
connections that service a population of 475.
The sources of drinking water include rivers,
lakes, ponds and wells. As water travels over the
surface of the land or through the ground, it dissolves
naturally occurring minerals and radioactive material
and can pick up substances resulting from human or
animal activity. The Maine Drinking Water Program
will be evaluating all public water supplies statewide
by the year 2003 as part of the Source Water
Assessment Program. The evaluation will consider
geology and hydrology, land uses, water testing
information, and the extent of land ownership or
protection by local ordinance to determine how likely
our drinking water source is to be contaminated in the
future. When this work is completed by the state it
will be included in future versions of this report.
