Seacat’s Rest October Notes 2011

Fall is barely showing its face to us on the shore of Frenchman Bay, yet we can see the end of our tourism season.  Not even the most creative liar can present November in Maine as something worth experiencing (weather-wise, at least), so SeaCat’s Rest will soon be empty once again. Still, this has been our best year so far, and even 2012 is starting to fill up (fair warning). The reports from Spring of 2011 indicated that visits to Acadia National Park were down 17% from 2010 in the first 5 months, but the weather was unusually rainy. Soon we’ll know how the rest of the summer went.

Here at SeaCat’s Rest  for 2011 we had visits from 13 states and one country besides the US, and the results are below. One group each from Maine, Vermont, NY, CT, MD, VA, FL, MN, WI, MI, WA and HI with 3 visiting groups from Pennsylvania. One family came all the way from Norwich, England. Our Hawaii visitors actually have a summer home nearby and used our place for overflow during a family reunion.In the spirit of catching up on SeaCat developments, we got the water analysis for our new well.  How many of your other vacation lodgings publish their water analysis? Bottom line, our water is safe to drink. We have a bit too much iron and manganese but that doesn’t affect human health. The most important part of the report, performed by the Maine State Health and Environmental Testing Laboratory is our low arsenic, bacteria and uranium.

PH   8.4    (highest allowed limit 8.5)

E. Coli   less than 1 per 100 ml

Coliform, total   less than 1 per 100 ml

Chloride   21 mg/L (highest allowed limit 250)

Fluoride   .05 mg/L (highest allowed limit 1.7)

Total hardness   71.9 mg/L

Nitrate Nitrogen   less than 0.05 mg/L

Nitrite Nitrogen   less than 0.05 mg/L

Arsenic  2.0 micrograms/L  (highest allowed limit 10)

Calcium 20 mg/L  (no limit set by EPA)

Copper .023 mg/L   (highest allowed limit 1.3)

Iron 2.1 mg/L   (exceeds aesthetic limit of .3)

Magnesium 5.5 mg/L  (no limit set by EPA)

Manganese .074 mg/L   (exceeds aesthetic limit of .05)

Uranium 5.1 micrograms/L  (highest allowed limit 30)

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