Eielson - Air Force Base, AK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 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. 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.
Eielson - Air Force Base at a glance
Eielson - Air Force Base serves about 11,870 people through 716 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws groundwater, in Fairbanks North Star Borough County, Alaska. EPA system ID: AK2370625; phone on file: 317-377-2264. 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 up 1.2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Eielson - Air Force Base is 2.22 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0.73 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.54 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.54 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.54 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.22 ppb |
How Eielson - Air Force Base 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. Eielson - Air Force Base's 1.2 ppb sits at the 45th percentile in Alaska and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
22 other systems share Fairbanks North Star Borough County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Eielson - Air Force Base. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Golden Heart Utilities | 78,324 | 2.4 ppb |
| College Utilities Corporation | 27,000 | 1 ppb |
| Ft Wainwright - Main Post | 20,076 | 3.1 ppb |
| University Of Alaska - Fairbanks | 6,200 | 2.4 ppb |
| North Pole Utilities | 4,005 | 0.56 ppb |
| H2o 2u, Dba The Fill | 2,400 | - |
| Valley Water Company | 1,575 | 23 ppb |
| Pioneer Wells At Fox | 880 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pioneer Wells | 600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Salcha Community Watering Point | 508 | 3.3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Eielson Afb, 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 Eielson - Air Force Base 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.