Bbahc - Kanakanak Hospital, AK
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Bbahc - Kanakanak Hospital
Bbahc - Kanakanak Hospital serves about 305 people through 26 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a Native American tribe and draws groundwater, in Dillingham Census Area County, Alaska. EPA system ID: AK2261282. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
That is up 10.67 ppb from 0.33 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bbahc - Kanakanak Hospital is 11 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 0.33 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.05 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. Bbahc - Kanakanak Hospital's 11 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Alaska and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Dillingham Census Area County
10 other systems share Dillingham Census Area County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bbahc - Kanakanak Hospital. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Dillingham Water System | 2,419 | 0.4 ppb |
| Togiak Water System | 910 | 0.43 ppb |
| New Stuyahok Water System | 566 | 0.37 ppb |
| Manokotak Water System | 293 | 6.07 ppb |
| Manokotak Heights W/S | 215 | 0 (not detected) |
| Koliganek Water System | 170 | 2.7 ppb |
| Clarks Point Water System | 128 | 10.1 ppb |
| Twin Hills Water System | 87 | 0.69 ppb |
| Salmon Roe | 31 | 5.4 ppb |
| Nina Nicholson Subdivision | 31 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Dillingham, 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 Bbahc - Kanakanak Hospital 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.