Dillingham Water System, AK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.4 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2027). 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 Dillingham Water System
Dillingham Water System serves about 2,419 people through 182 service connections, which makes it a 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: AK2260197; phone on file: 907-842-5212. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.6 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dillingham Water System is 4.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.3 ppb |
How Dillingham Water System 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. Dillingham Water System's 0.4 ppb sits at the 24th percentile in Alaska and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Dillingham Census Area County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dillingham Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Togiak Water System | 910 | 0.43 ppb |
| New Stuyahok Water System | 566 | 0.37 ppb |
| Bbahc - Kanakanak Hospital | 305 | 11 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) |
Next steps for Dillingham, AK
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 Dillingham Water System 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.