Sun Valley Heights North, AK
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.33 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Who runs the water here
Sun Valley Heights North serves about 51 people through 19 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: AK2212005; phone on file: 907-947-1434. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 2.33 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sun Valley Heights North is 19.2 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.33 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2.46 ppb |
| 2020 | 8.31 ppb |
| 2020 | 15.3 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 19.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 2.73 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. Sun Valley Heights North's 2.33 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Alaska and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
66 other systems share Anchorage Municipality County; 19 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sun Valley Heights North. 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 |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Anchorage, 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 Sun Valley Heights North 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.