Anchor Point Safe Water Corporation, AK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 Anchor Point Safe Water Corporation
Anchor Point Safe Water Corporation serves about 1,000 people through 80 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Kenai Peninsula Borough County, Alaska. EPA system ID: AK2247490; phone on file: 907-235-2411. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.4 ppb from 4.8 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Anchor Point Safe Water Corporation is 7.8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 6.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 5.78 ppb |
| 2017 | 7.8 ppb |
How Anchor Point Safe Water Corporation 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. Anchor Point Safe Water Corporation's 6.2 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Alaska and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
26 other systems share Kenai Peninsula Borough County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Anchor Point Safe Water Corporation. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Homer Water System | 7,008 | 2 ppb |
| Kenai Water System | 5,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Soldotna | 4,807 | 4.53 ppb |
| Seward | 3,324 | 0 (not detected) |
| Seward Marine Industrial Cent | 545 | 2.64 ppb |
| Nikishka Bay | 470 | 2.7 ppb |
| Seldovia Water System | 418 | 1.4 ppb |
| Nikolaevsk Community Water System | 360 | 0 (not detected) |
| Voznesenka Village | 300 | 1.1 ppb |
| Nanwalek | 281 | 1.19 ppb |
Next steps for Anchor Point, AK
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Anchor Point, 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 Anchor Point Safe Water Corporation whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
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.