Kake Municipal Water, AK
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.9 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Kake Municipal Water at a glance
Kake Municipal Water serves about 415 people through 190 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a Native American tribe and draws surface water. EPA system ID: AK2130083; phone on file: 907-500-5320. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Kake Municipal Water's lead record
That is down 2.1 ppb from 10 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Kake Municipal Water is 30 ppb across 15 monitoring periods, 5 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 7.9 ppb |
| 2025 | 10 ppb |
| 2024 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 18 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 10 ppb |
| 2022 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 9 ppb |
| 2019 | 5.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 30 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 24.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 9 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. Kake Municipal Water's 7.9 ppb sits at the 94th percentile in Alaska and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kake, 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 Kake Municipal Water whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1400 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. More in what a past exceedance means today.