Nikolaevsk Community Water System, AK
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Nikolaevsk Community Water System at a glance
Nikolaevsk Community Water System serves about 360 people through 72 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Kenai Peninsula Borough County, Alaska. EPA system ID: AK2241648; phone on file: 907-235-2731. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Nikolaevsk Community Water System is 0.63 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0.63 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Nikolaevsk Community Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 11th percentile in Alaska and the 20th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
26 other systems share Kenai Peninsula Borough County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Nikolaevsk Community Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Homer Water System | 7,008 | 2 ppb |
| Kenai Water System | 5,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Soldotna | 4,807 | 4.53 ppb |
| Seward | 3,324 | 0 (not detected) |
| Anchor Point Safe Water Corporation | 1,000 | 6.2 ppb |
| Seward Marine Industrial Cent | 545 | 2.64 ppb |
| Nikishka Bay | 470 | 2.7 ppb |
| Seldovia Water System | 418 | 1.4 ppb |
| Voznesenka Village | 300 | 1.1 ppb |
| Nanwalek | 281 | 1.19 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Nikolaevsk Community Water System'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 Nikolaevsk Community Water System 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.