Transient Non-Community · PWSID AK2380468

GSA / Alcan Border Station

Serves 324 peopleGroundwaterOwner: FederalFairbanks, Alaska
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On record since 2003: 8 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 1 missed or late test · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2013-05-01.

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
2Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
5Notice or report

More violations on record than 54% 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: 12005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12009 · Missed or late test: 120102012 · Treatment lapse: 12012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Treatment lapse: 1201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% treatment lapse · 213% missed or late test · 163% notice or report · 5

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2013-05-01Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  2. 2012-11-16Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  3. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2009-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  5. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served324
Service connections10
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerFederal
StatusActive
CityFairbanks
EPA ZIP on file99701

Areas served

  • Tok, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area

Reading this record

GSA / Alcan Border Station is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 324 people in Fairbanks, 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.