Alyeska Creekside Apartments, AK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.8 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
About Alyeska Creekside Apartments
Alyeska Creekside Apartments serves about 60 people through 2 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: AK2218653; phone on file: 907-350-9672. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (0.32 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Alyeska Creekside Apartments is 0.8 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.32 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.17 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.28 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.18 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Alyeska Creekside Apartments compares
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. Alyeska Creekside Apartments's 0.8 ppb sits at the 35th percentile in Alaska and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Anchorage Municipality County
66 other systems share Anchorage Municipality County; 44 of them have a higher latest lead result than Alyeska Creekside Apartments. 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 |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Girdwood, 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 Alyeska Creekside Apartments whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1650 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.