Alpine Woods Water System, AK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Alpine Woods Water System serves about 200 people through 48 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Anchorage Municipality County, Alaska. EPA system ID: AK2213598; phone on file: 907-345-8908. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 6.2 ppb from 6.9 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Alpine Woods Water System is 6.9 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 6.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 5.52 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.93 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.65 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.4 ppb |
Against other Alaska systems
Of the 394 Alaska systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.6 ppb; 3 are over 15 ppb right now and 53 have gone over at some point. Alpine Woods Water System's 0.7 ppb sits at the 30th percentile in Alaska and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
66 other systems share Anchorage Municipality County; 50 of them have a higher latest lead result than Alpine Woods Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Moa Municipality Of Anchorage | 221,351 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jber-Elmendorf | 30,003 | 0 (not detected) |
| Doyon Utilities Jber - Richardson | 20,284 | 0 (not detected) |
| Girdwood Water System | 2,625 | 2.82 ppb |
| Ow Dimond Estates Trailer Court | 1,395 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southwood Manor Tc | 1,005 | 4.8 ppb |
| Penland Park Mhp | 993 | 0.36 ppb |
| Manoogs Isle Mobile Home Park | 935 | 1 ppb |
| Glencaren Court | 828 | 1.2 ppb |
| Rangeview Tc | 795 | 0.05 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Anchorage, AK may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Alpine Woods Water System whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1550 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.