Transient Non-Community · PWSID AK2244824

Higher Ground Baptist Bible Camp

Serves 90 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateSterling, 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 1995: 28 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 23 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-01.

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
3Treatment lapse
23Missed or late test
2Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 73% 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

1995 · Missed or late test: 119951996 · Missed or late test: 21996 · Missed or late test: 21997 · Missed or late test: 11998 · Missed or late test: 11999 · Missed or late test: 12000200520102014 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Treatment lapse: 32015 · Treatment lapse: 32015 · Treatment lapse: 320152016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 420202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
11% treatment lapse · 382% missed or late test · 237% notice or report · 2

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2014-11-26Unknown contaminantSanitary Survey (TCR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2022-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2021-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2020-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2020-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2020-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2020-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2019-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2018-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  16. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2016-05-29Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  18. 2015-02-02Groundwater Rule ×3Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  19. 2014-11-26Unknown contaminantSanitary Survey (TCR)Open
  20. 2014-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  21. 1999-06-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  22. 1998-06-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  23. 1997-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  24. 1996-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  25. 1996-06-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
Show the other 1 entries
  1. 1995-06-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served90
Service connections3
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySterling
EPA ZIP on file99672

Areas served

  • Sterling, Kenai Peninsula Borough

Reading this record

Higher Ground Baptist Bible Camp is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 90 people in Sterling, 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.