Klawock, AK

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.6 ppb (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. 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.

Who runs the water here

Klawock serves about 904 people through 450 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a Native American tribe and draws surface water. EPA system ID: AK2120169; phone on file: 907-755-2261. 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 1.9 ppb from 5.5 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Klawock is 5.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

How Klawock 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. Klawock's 3.6 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Alaska and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).

Next steps for Klawock, AK

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Klawock, 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 Klawock 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.