Salcha Community Watering Point, AK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.3 ppb (monitoring period 2018-2018). 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.
About Salcha Community Watering Point
Salcha Community Watering Point serves about 508 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Fairbanks North Star Borough County, Alaska. EPA system ID: AK2312415; phone on file: 907-388-6235. 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 3.3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2016. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Salcha Community Watering Point is 3.3 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Salcha Community Watering Point's 3.3 ppb sits at the 75th percentile in Alaska and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
22 other systems share Fairbanks North Star Borough County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Salcha Community Watering Point. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Golden Heart Utilities | 78,324 | 2.4 ppb |
| College Utilities Corporation | 27,000 | 1 ppb |
| Ft Wainwright - Main Post | 20,076 | 3.1 ppb |
| Eielson - Air Force Base | 11,870 | 1.2 ppb |
| University Of Alaska - Fairbanks | 6,200 | 2.4 ppb |
| North Pole Utilities | 4,005 | 0.56 ppb |
| H2o 2u, Dba The Fill | 2,400 | - |
| Valley Water Company | 1,575 | 23 ppb |
| Pioneer Wells At Fox | 880 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pioneer Wells | 600 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Salcha, 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 Salcha Community Watering Point 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.