Community Water System · PWSID AK2340345

Elim Water Supply

Serves 320 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Native AmericanElim, Alaska
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2003: 58 violations. 7 treatment lapses · 40 missed or late tests · 11 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-09-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
7Treatment lapse
40Missed or late test1 open
11Notice or report

More violations on record than 83% of active water systems in Alaska. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2003 · Notice or report: 12004 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Missed or late test: 12006 · Notice or report: 12008 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102012 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 22014 · Notice or report: 220152017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Missed or late test: 52018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72018 · Missed or late test: 72019 · Treatment lapse: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52021 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Treatment lapse: 32022 · Treatment lapse: 32022 · Treatment lapse: 32022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52022 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Treatment lapse: 12023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Notice or report: 12024 · Treatment lapse: 22024 · Treatment lapse: 22024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 82025 · Missed or late test: 82025 · Missed or late test: 82025 · Missed or late test: 82025 · Missed or late test: 82025 · Missed or late test: 82025 · Missed or late test: 82025 · Missed or late test: 82025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
12% treatment lapse · 769% missed or late test · 4019% notice or report · 11

Across Alaska, 88% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 8 results on file · action level 15 ppb

21.4 ppb
9.2 ppb
4.4 ppb
3.3 ppb
2 ppb
1.9 ppb
1.5 ppb
0.98 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

1.4 mg/L

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-01-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-04-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2025-02-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2025-01-31Lead and Copper RuleLead Consumer NoticeOpen
  9. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  10. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  11. 2024-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  12. 2024-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  13. 2024-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  14. 2024-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  15. 2024-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  16. 2023-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  17. 2023-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  18. 2023-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  19. 2023-02-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  20. 2023-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  21. 2023-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2022-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  23. 2022-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  24. 2022-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  25. 2022-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
Show the other 33 entries
  1. 2022-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  2. 2022-04-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monthly Turbidity Exceed (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  3. 2022-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2022-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2021-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2021-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2021-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  8. 2021-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2021-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2019-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  11. 2019-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  12. 2019-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2018-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  14. 2018-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  15. 2018-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  16. 2018-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2018-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  18. 2018-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2018-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2017-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  21. 2017-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2017-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2017-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  24. 2017-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  25. 2014-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  26. 2014-01-28Unknown contaminantSanitary Survey (TCR)Back in compliance
  27. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  28. 2010-01-18Unknown contaminantSanitary Survey (TCR)Back in compliance
  29. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  30. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  31. 2006-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  32. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  33. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served320
Service connections78
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerNative American
StatusActive
CityElim
EPA ZIP on file99739

Areas served

  • Elim, Nome Census Area

Reading this record

Elim Water Supply is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 320 people in Elim, Alaska. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.