Kenny Lake Fire Hall, AK
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Kenny Lake Fire Hall at a glance
Kenny Lake Fire Hall serves about 200 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 Valdez-Cordova Census Area County, Alaska. EPA system ID: AK2292330; phone on file: 907-831-2063. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Kenny Lake Fire Hall is 0.96 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0.96 ppb |
How Kenny Lake Fire Hall 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. Kenny Lake Fire Hall's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 8th percentile in Alaska and the 15th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
17 other systems share Valdez-Cordova Census Area County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Kenny Lake Fire Hall. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Valdez Water System - Main | 4,500 | 4.7 ppb |
| Cordova City Water | 2,700 | 6 ppb |
| Valdez Southcentral | 675 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whittier Water System | 650 | 1.69 ppb |
| Valdez Robe River S/D | 464 | 1.12 ppb |
| Glennallen Water Works | 365 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kenny Lake Community Well | 236 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tatitlek Water System | 95 | 2.3 ppb |
| Mentasta Washeteria/14 Plex | 90 | 1 ppb |
| Tezdlende Estates And Watering Point | 75 | 0.15 ppb |
Next steps for Copper Center, AK
Look up your address in Kenny Lake Fire Hall'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 Kenny Lake Fire Hall 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.