Seward Marine Industrial Cent, AK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.64 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Seward Marine Industrial Cent at a glance
Seward Marine Industrial Cent serves about 545 people through 18 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 Kenai Peninsula Borough County, Alaska. EPA system ID: AK2244159; phone on file: 907-224-4058. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Seward Marine Industrial Cent's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (3.19 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Seward Marine Industrial Cent is 3.47 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.64 ppb |
| 2025 | 3.19 ppb |
| 2025 | 3.47 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.53 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.55 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.21 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.48 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. Seward Marine Industrial Cent's 2.64 ppb sits at the 69th percentile in Alaska and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Kenai Peninsula Borough County
26 other systems share Kenai Peninsula Borough County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Seward Marine Industrial Cent. 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 |
| Nikishka Bay | 470 | 2.7 ppb |
| Seldovia Water System | 418 | 1.4 ppb |
| Nikolaevsk Community Water System | 360 | 0 (not detected) |
| Voznesenka Village | 300 | 1.1 ppb |
| Nanwalek | 281 | 1.19 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Seward, 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 Seward Marine Industrial Cent whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1830 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.