Tezdlende Estates And Watering Point, AK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.15 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.
About Tezdlende Estates And Watering Point
Tezdlende Estates And Watering Point serves about 75 people through 10 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 Valdez-Cordova Census Area County, Alaska. EPA system ID: AK2291279; phone on file: 907-822-7023. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tezdlende Estates And Watering Point is 2.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.15 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 2.2 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. Tezdlende Estates And Watering Point's 0.15 ppb sits at the 18th percentile in Alaska and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Valdez-Cordova Census Area County
17 other systems share Valdez-Cordova Census Area County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tezdlende Estates And Watering Point. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Valdez Water System - Main | 4,500 | 4.7 ppb |
| Cordova City Water | 2,700 | 6 ppb |
| Valdez Southcentral | 675 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whittier Water System | 650 | 1.69 ppb |
| Valdez Robe River S/D | 464 | 1.12 ppb |
| Glennallen Water Works | 365 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kenny Lake Community Well | 236 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kenny Lake Fire Hall | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tatitlek Water System | 95 | 2.3 ppb |
| Mentasta Washeteria/14 Plex | 90 | 1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Glennallen, 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 Tezdlende Estates And Watering Point 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.