Knik Tribal Council Senior Housing Dev, AK
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Knik Tribal Council Senior Housing Dev serves about 128 people through 8 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a Native American tribe and draws groundwater, in Matanuska-Susitna Borough County, Alaska. EPA system ID: AK2220501; phone on file: 907-373-7991. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Knik Tribal Council Senior Housing Dev is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
How Knik Tribal Council Senior Housing Dev 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. Knik Tribal Council Senior Housing Dev's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 7th percentile in Alaska and the 11th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
78 other systems share Matanuska-Susitna Borough County; 61 of them have a higher latest lead result than Knik Tribal Council Senior Housing Dev. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wasilla Water System | 18,492 | 3.1 ppb |
| Palmer Water System | 8,111 | 2.3 ppb |
| Unified Alaskan Utilities Settlers Bay | 2,733 | 0.72 ppb |
| Talkeetna Water System | 1,850 | 1.4 ppb |
| Valley Utilities Llc | 1,590 | 5 ppb |
| Country Field Water Co. | 1,166 | 0.54 ppb |
| Equestrian Acres | 950 | 1.6 ppb |
| Victoria Estates | 912 | 2.14 ppb |
| Trapper Creek Watering Point | 500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Unified Alaskan Utilities Midtown Est | 495 | 0.9 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Knik Tribal Council Senior Housing Dev'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 Knik Tribal Council Senior Housing Dev 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.