Kachemak Selo #3, AK
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Kachemak Selo #3 at a glance
Kachemak Selo #3 serves about 150 people through 34 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Kenai Peninsula Borough County, Alaska. EPA system ID: AK2247953; phone on file: 907-235-4108. 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 1.28 ppb from 1.28 ppb in the period ending 2019. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Kachemak Selo #3 is 1.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.28 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.8 ppb |
How Kachemak Selo #3 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. Kachemak Selo #3's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 7th percentile in Alaska and the 13th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
26 other systems share Kenai Peninsula Borough County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Kachemak Selo #3. 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) |
| Anchor Point Safe Water Corporation | 1,000 | 6.2 ppb |
| 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 |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Kachemak Selo #3's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Kachemak Selo #3 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.