Sterling Moose River Manor, AK
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Sterling Moose River Manor
Sterling Moose River Manor serves about 33 people through 2 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Kenai Peninsula Borough County, Alaska. EPA system ID: AK2249099; phone on file: 907-262-6826. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.13 ppb from 2.13 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sterling Moose River Manor is 4.22 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2.13 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.22 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.22 ppb |
How Sterling Moose River Manor 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. Sterling Moose River Manor's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 2nd percentile in Alaska and the 1st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Kenai Peninsula Borough County
26 other systems share Kenai Peninsula Borough County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sterling Moose River Manor. 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 |
| Seward Marine Industrial Cent | 545 | 2.64 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 |
Next steps for Sterling, AK
Look up your address in Sterling Moose River Manor's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Sterling Moose River Manor 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.