Bear Mountain Condo Assn., AK
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Bear Mountain Condo Assn. at a glance
Bear Mountain Condo Assn. serves about 65 people through 1 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: AK2213239; phone on file: 907-562-2929. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Bear Mountain Condo Assn.'s lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (1.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bear Mountain Condo Assn. is 40.97 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.66 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.53 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.41 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.21 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.41 ppb |
| 2016 | 40.97 ppb over 15 |
How Bear Mountain Condo Assn. 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. Bear Mountain Condo Assn.'s 1.8 ppb sits at the 53rd percentile in Alaska and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
66 other systems share Anchorage Municipality County; 29 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bear Mountain Condo Assn.. 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 |
Next steps for Anchorage, AK
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 Bear Mountain Condo Assn. 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.