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EWG's Tap Water Database — 2021 UPDATE

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Alaska

  • 411 Utilities

  • Serving: 682,000

  • Data available: 2014-2019

  • Contaminants Found: 58

 

EWG's drinking water quality report for Alaska shows results of tests conducted by the water utilities in Alaska and provided to EWG by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation.

LARGE UTILITIES
ALL UTILITIES WITH VIOLATIONS
LARGE UTILITIES WITH VIOLATIONS

Below are utilities in Alaska serving over 10,000 people, listed alphabetically.

Large utilities in Alaska

UtilityLocationPeople
Served
College Utilities CorporationFairbanks, AK27,000
Doyon Utilities Jber - RichardsonFairbanks, AK20,602
Ft Wainwright - Main PostFairbanks, AK15,868
Golden Heart UtilitiesFairbanks, AK78,324
JBER - ElmendorfJber, AK20,675
JuneauJuneau, AK33,732
Municipality of AnchorageAnchorage, AK221,351
SitkaSitka, AK11,702
Wasilla Water SystemWasilla, AK18,222

Utilities that accumulated/accrued the most violation points as of April 2019 to March 2021 in Alaska

The Environmental Protection Agency's Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) database collects compliance and enforcement-related information for drinking water utilities nationwide. ECHO water quality violation scores take into account federal health-based water quality standards, as well as monitoring, reporting and other drinking water quality requirements. Points are accrued based on specific problems at the utility - violations of health-based drinking water standards receive more points than monitoring and reporting violations - and the length of time until the violations were corrected.

UtilityLocationPeople
Served
Violation
Points
Grayling Water SystemGrayling, AK195151
Unalakleet City Water SupplyUnalakleet, AK757143
Platinum City Water SystemPlatinum, AK51125
Alakanuk Water SystemAlakanuk, AK570117
Thorne Bay, City ofThorne Bay, AK47097
Kotzebue Municipal Water SystemKotzebue, AK3,29095
Bluffview Acres Water SystemWasilla, AK10095
Vallenar View Mobile Home ParkKetchikan, AK22586
Nunam Iqua Water SystemNunam Iqua, AK21384
Kwigillingok WasheteriaKwigillingok, AK33877
Deering Utility SystemDeering, AK16071
Tatitlek Water SystemTatitlek, AK9568
River Terrace Trailer CourtSoldotna, AK33765
Diomede Joint UtilitiesLittle Diomede, AK18465
Kwethluk New Piped Water SystemKwethluk, AK76060
AkhiokAkhiok, AK9059
Kb Sub. Water Service AssociationSoldotna, AK17056
Nightmute New Watering PointNightmute, AK24356
AkutanAkutan, AK9550
Kake Municipal WaterKake, AK41545
Scammon Bay Water SystemScammon Bay, AK48444
Emmonak Water SystemEmmonak, AK82043
Newtok Water SystemNewtok, AK43543
Native Village of SleetmuteBethel, AK8242
KlawockKlawock, AK90441
Snowshoe Water SystemWasilla, AK18041
Cameron AcresAnchorage, AK3540
Oscarville Watering PointOscarville, AK7540
Saint George Water SystemSaint George, AK9239
HydaburgHydaburg, AK41536

Large utilities that accumulated/accrued the most violation points as of April 2019 to March 2021 in Alaska

The Environmental Protection Agency's Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) database collects compliance and enforcement-related information for drinking water utilities nationwide. ECHO water quality violation scores take into account federal health-based water quality standards, as well as monitoring, reporting and other drinking water quality requirements. Points are accrued based on specific problems at the utility - violations of health-based drinking water standards receive more points than monitoring and reporting violations - and the length of time until the violations were corrected.

UtilityLocationPeople
Served
Violation
Points
JBER - ElmendorfJber, AK20,6753
Wasilla Water SystemWasilla, AK18,2222
Municipality of AnchorageAnchorage, AK221,3512
Doyon Utilities Jber - RichardsonFairbanks, AK20,6021
JuneauJuneau, AK33,7321

Contaminants found in Alaska above health guidelines

Found above health guidelinesFound
Contaminant# of UtilitiesPeople Served# of UtilitiesPeople Served

Total trihalomethanes (TTHMs)
181616,097182617,090

Bromodichloromethane
167609,793167609,793

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
172606,167172606,167

Chloroform
170598,280173610,184

Dichloroacetic acid
159593,854159593,854

Radium, combined (-226 & -228)
243593,359270610,315

Trichloroacetic acid
136571,710136571,710

Chromium (hexavalent)
18431,97418431,974

Haloacetic acids (HAA9)
17428,66322472,039

Nitrate and nitrite
189383,079230437,519

Nitrate
85342,16288344,729

Arsenic
67294,68567294,685

Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)
12144,99812144,998

Chlorate
8135,72420435,439

Dibromochloromethane
87119,65991134,689

Perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHXS)
7115,0497115,049

Dibromoacetic acid
4765,3944765,394

Manganese
639,87439502,917

Bromoform
3634,0564670,152

Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS)
429,34911144,398

Bromate
12,30012,300

Thallium
29872987

Uranium
49172411,588

Antimony
32343234

Cadmium
1160218,382

Barium
2110187389,304

Tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene)
14128,416

Styrene
130130

Contaminants found in Alaska above legal limits

Contaminant# of UtilitiesPeople Served

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
107,176

Total trihalomethanes (TTHMs)
116,697

Arsenic
81,446

Nitrate and nitrite
1184

Nitrate
1184