Alaska
411 Utilities
Serving: 682,000
Data available: 2014-2019
Contaminants Found: 58
EWG's drinking water quality report for Alaska shows results of tests conducted by the water utilities in Alaska and provided to EWG by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation.
Below are utilities in Alaska serving over 10,000 people, listed alphabetically.
Large utilities in Alaska
| Utility | Location | People Served |
|---|---|---|
| College Utilities Corporation | Fairbanks, AK | 27,000 |
| Doyon Utilities Jber - Richardson | Fairbanks, AK | 20,602 |
| Ft Wainwright - Main Post | Fairbanks, AK | 15,868 |
| Golden Heart Utilities | Fairbanks, AK | 78,324 |
| JBER - Elmendorf | Jber, AK | 20,675 |
| Juneau | Juneau, AK | 33,732 |
| Municipality of Anchorage | Anchorage, AK | 221,351 |
| Sitka | Sitka, AK | 11,702 |
| Wasilla Water System | Wasilla, AK | 18,222 |
Utilities that accumulated/accrued the most violation points as of April 2019 to March 2021 in Alaska
The Environmental Protection Agency's Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) database collects compliance and enforcement-related information for drinking water utilities nationwide. ECHO water quality violation scores take into account federal health-based water quality standards, as well as monitoring, reporting and other drinking water quality requirements. Points are accrued based on specific problems at the utility - violations of health-based drinking water standards receive more points than monitoring and reporting violations - and the length of time until the violations were corrected.
Large utilities that accumulated/accrued the most violation points as of April 2019 to March 2021 in Alaska
The Environmental Protection Agency's Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) database collects compliance and enforcement-related information for drinking water utilities nationwide. ECHO water quality violation scores take into account federal health-based water quality standards, as well as monitoring, reporting and other drinking water quality requirements. Points are accrued based on specific problems at the utility - violations of health-based drinking water standards receive more points than monitoring and reporting violations - and the length of time until the violations were corrected.
| Utility | Location | People Served | Violation Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| JBER - Elmendorf | Jber, AK | 20,675 | 3 |
| Wasilla Water System | Wasilla, AK | 18,222 | 2 |
| Municipality of Anchorage | Anchorage, AK | 221,351 | 2 |
| Doyon Utilities Jber - Richardson | Fairbanks, AK | 20,602 | 1 |
| Juneau | Juneau, AK | 33,732 | 1 |
Contaminants found in Alaska above health guidelines
| Found above health guidelines | Found | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contaminant | # of Utilities | People Served | # of Utilities | People Served | |||
Total trihalomethanes (TTHMs) | 181 | 616,097 | 182 | 617,090 | |||
Bromodichloromethane | 167 | 609,793 | 167 | 609,793 | |||
Haloacetic acids (HAA5) | 172 | 606,167 | 172 | 606,167 | |||
Chloroform | 170 | 598,280 | 173 | 610,184 | |||
Dichloroacetic acid | 159 | 593,854 | 159 | 593,854 | |||
Radium, combined (-226 & -228) | 243 | 593,359 | 270 | 610,315 | |||
Trichloroacetic acid | 136 | 571,710 | 136 | 571,710 | |||
Chromium (hexavalent) | 18 | 431,974 | 18 | 431,974 | |||
Haloacetic acids (HAA9) | 17 | 428,663 | 22 | 472,039 | |||
Nitrate and nitrite | 189 | 383,079 | 230 | 437,519 | |||
Nitrate | 85 | 342,162 | 88 | 344,729 | |||
Arsenic | 67 | 294,685 | 67 | 294,685 | |||
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) | 12 | 144,998 | 12 | 144,998 | |||
Chlorate | 8 | 135,724 | 20 | 435,439 | |||
Dibromochloromethane | 87 | 119,659 | 91 | 134,689 | |||
Perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHXS) | 7 | 115,049 | 7 | 115,049 | |||
Dibromoacetic acid | 47 | 65,394 | 47 | 65,394 | |||
Manganese | 6 | 39,874 | 39 | 502,917 | |||
Bromoform | 36 | 34,056 | 46 | 70,152 | |||
Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) | 4 | 29,349 | 11 | 144,398 | |||
Bromate | 1 | 2,300 | 1 | 2,300 | |||
Thallium | 2 | 987 | 2 | 987 | |||
Uranium | 4 | 917 | 24 | 11,588 | |||
Antimony | 3 | 234 | 3 | 234 | |||
Cadmium | 1 | 160 | 2 | 18,382 | |||
Barium | 2 | 110 | 187 | 389,304 | |||
Tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene) | 1 | 41 | 2 | 8,416 | |||
Styrene | 1 | 30 | 1 | 30 | |||
Contaminants found in Alaska above legal limits
| Contaminant | # of Utilities | People Served | |
|---|---|---|---|
Haloacetic acids (HAA5) | 10 | 7,176 | |
Total trihalomethanes (TTHMs) | 11 | 6,697 | |
Arsenic | 8 | 1,446 | |
Nitrate and nitrite | 1 | 184 | |
Nitrate | 1 | 184 |