Salmon Roe, AK
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.4 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Salmon Roe at a glance
Salmon Roe serves about 31 people through 11 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 Dillingham Census Area County, Alaska. EPA system ID: AK2261460; phone on file: 907-842-5218. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 3.3 ppb from 2.1 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Salmon Roe is 32.5 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 5.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.78 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.52 ppb |
| 2021 | 7.15 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.63 ppb |
| 2020 | 8.92 ppb |
| 2019 | 8.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 32.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 31.5 ppb over 15 |
How Salmon Roe 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. Salmon Roe's 5.4 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Alaska and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Dillingham Census Area County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Salmon Roe. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Dillingham Water System | 2,419 | 0.4 ppb |
| Togiak Water System | 910 | 0.43 ppb |
| New Stuyahok Water System | 566 | 0.37 ppb |
| Bbahc - Kanakanak Hospital | 305 | 11 ppb |
| Manokotak Water System | 293 | 6.07 ppb |
| Manokotak Heights W/S | 215 | 0 (not detected) |
| Koliganek Water System | 170 | 2.7 ppb |
| Clarks Point Water System | 128 | 10.1 ppb |
| Twin Hills Water System | 87 | 0.69 ppb |
| Nina Nicholson Subdivision | 31 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Dillingham, 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 Salmon Roe whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1800 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. More in what a past exceedance means today.