Port Lions, AK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.1 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.
Port Lions at a glance
Port Lions serves about 175 people through 139 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a Native American tribe and draws surface water, in Kodiak Island Borough County, Alaska. EPA system ID: AK2250045; phone on file: 907-942-7030. 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 up 3.35 ppb from 2.75 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Port Lions is 6.1 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 6.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.75 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.35 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.72 ppb |
How Port Lions 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. Port Lions's 6.1 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in Alaska and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Kodiak Island Borough County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Port Lions. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kodiak Water System | 9,547 | 3.9 ppb |
| Uscg Station Kodiak | 3,092 | 1.37 ppb |
| Larsen Bay Water System | 271 | 1.2 ppb |
| Old Harbor | 246 | 5 ppb |
| Ouzinkie Water System | 144 | 2.7 ppb |
| Akhiok | 90 | 4.8 ppb |
| Karluk Water System | 60 | 0.31 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Port Lions, 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 Port Lions 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.