Ketchikan H2o, AK
No lead results on file with EPA
Latest 90th-percentile lead: no result on file. The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. EPA's database has no Lead and Copper Rule results for this system. Without them there is nothing to go on, so a tap test is the only way to know.
Who runs the water here
Ketchikan H2o serves about 25 people through 3 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Ketchikan Gateway Borough County, Alaska. EPA system ID: AK2121479; phone on file: 907-225-5426. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Ketchikan Gateway Borough County. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ketchikan Public Utilities | 8,937 | 2.5 ppb |
| South Tongass Water Utility | 975 | 1.9 ppb |
| Saxman | 450 | 9 ppb |
| Vallenar View Mobile Home Park | 225 | 1.85 ppb |
| Ketchikan Water, Truck 1 | 100 | - |
| Kasaan | 66 | 2 ppb |
| Port Protection | 60 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Ward Cove, AK
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ward Cove, 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 Ketchikan H2o 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.