Vallenar View Mobile Home Park, AK
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.85 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Vallenar View Mobile Home Park at a glance
Vallenar View Mobile Home Park serves about 225 people through 76 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Ketchikan Gateway Borough County, Alaska. EPA system ID: AK2120012; phone on file: 907-222-4084. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.27 ppb from 4.12 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Vallenar View Mobile Home Park is 8.92 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.85 ppb |
| 2024 | 4.12 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.75 ppb |
| 2021 | 7.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.79 ppb |
| 2019 | 8.25 ppb |
| 2018 | 5.82 ppb |
| 2017 | 8.92 ppb |
| 2017 | 8.07 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.8 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. Vallenar View Mobile Home Park's 1.85 ppb sits at the 54th percentile in Alaska and the 68th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Ketchikan Gateway Borough County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Vallenar View Mobile Home Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ketchikan Public Utilities | 8,937 | 2.5 ppb |
| South Tongass Water Utility | 975 | 1.9 ppb |
| Saxman | 450 | 9 ppb |
| Ketchikan Water, Truck 1 | 100 | - |
| Kasaan | 66 | 2 ppb |
| Port Protection | 60 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ketchikan H2o | 25 | - |
Next steps for Anchorage, AK
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 Vallenar View Mobile Home Park whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1640 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.