Valley Water Company, AK
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 23 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Valley Water Company at a glance
Valley Water Company serves about 1,575 people through 296 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Fairbanks North Star Borough County, Alaska. EPA system ID: AK2310926; phone on file: 907-488-6181. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 18.9 ppb from 4.1 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Valley Water Company is 23 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 23 ppb over 15 |
| 2025 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 8.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 6.2 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. Valley Water Company's 23 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Alaska and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Fairbanks North Star Borough County
22 other systems share Fairbanks North Star Borough County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Valley Water Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Golden Heart Utilities | 78,324 | 2.4 ppb |
| College Utilities Corporation | 27,000 | 1 ppb |
| Ft Wainwright - Main Post | 20,076 | 3.1 ppb |
| Eielson - Air Force Base | 11,870 | 1.2 ppb |
| University Of Alaska - Fairbanks | 6,200 | 2.4 ppb |
| North Pole Utilities | 4,005 | 0.56 ppb |
| H2o 2u, Dba The Fill | 2,400 | - |
| Pioneer Wells At Fox | 880 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pioneer Wells | 600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Salcha Community Watering Point | 508 | 3.3 ppb |
Next steps for Fairbanks, AK
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Valley Water Company whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 3260 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.