Sand Lake Services, AK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.2 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Sand Lake Services at a glance
Sand Lake Services serves about 465 people through 152 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Anchorage Municipality County, Alaska. EPA system ID: AK2210485; phone on file: 405-239-9900. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.3 ppb from 4.5 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sand Lake Services is 4.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.11 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.9 ppb |
Against other Alaska systems
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. Sand Lake Services's 2.2 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Alaska and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Anchorage Municipality County
66 other systems share Anchorage Municipality County; 21 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sand Lake Services. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Moa Municipality Of Anchorage | 221,351 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jber-Elmendorf | 30,003 | 0 (not detected) |
| Doyon Utilities Jber - Richardson | 20,284 | 0 (not detected) |
| Girdwood Water System | 2,625 | 2.82 ppb |
| Ow Dimond Estates Trailer Court | 1,395 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southwood Manor Tc | 1,005 | 4.8 ppb |
| Penland Park Mhp | 993 | 0.36 ppb |
| Manoogs Isle Mobile Home Park | 935 | 1 ppb |
| Glencaren Court | 828 | 1.2 ppb |
| Rangeview Tc | 795 | 0.05 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Big Lake, 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 Sand Lake Services 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.