Community Water System · PWSID AK2121479

Ketchikan H2o

Serves 25 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: PrivateWard Cove, Alaska
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On record since 2007: 69 violations. 1 over the limit · 58 missed or late tests · 10 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-01.

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

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
58Missed or late test
10Notice or report

More violations on record than 85% 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

20052007 · Missed or late test: 32007 · Missed or late test: 32008 · Missed or late test: 62008 · Missed or late test: 62008 · Missed or late test: 620102013 · Over the limit: 12013 · Missed or late test: 32013 · Missed or late test: 32014 · Missed or late test: 62014 · Missed or late test: 62014 · Missed or late test: 62014 · Notice or report: 22015 · Missed or late test: 72015 · Missed or late test: 72015 · Missed or late test: 72015 · Missed or late test: 720152016 · Missed or late test: 112016 · Missed or late test: 112016 · Missed or late test: 112016 · Missed or late test: 112016 · Missed or late test: 112016 · Missed or late test: 112016 · Notice or report: 32016 · Notice or report: 32017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Missed or late test: 52017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62018 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Notice or report: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
1% over the limit · 184% missed or late test · 5814% notice or report · 10

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  2. 2024-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  5. 2022-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2022-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2021-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2021-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2020-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2020-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2019-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2019-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2019-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  15. 2019-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2018-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  17. 2018-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  18. 2018-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  19. 2018-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  20. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2018-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2017-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  23. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  24. 2017-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  25. 2017-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
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  1. 2017-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  2. 2017-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2016-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2016-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2016-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2016-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  7. 2016-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  8. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  9. 2016-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2016-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  13. 2016-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2016-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  17. 2015-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  18. 2015-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2015-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  20. 2015-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  22. 2015-02-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  23. 2015-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  24. 2014-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  25. 2014-10-02Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  26. 2014-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  27. 2014-08-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  28. 2014-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  29. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  30. 2014-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  31. 2014-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  32. 2013-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  33. 2013-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  34. 2013-06-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  35. 2013-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  36. 2008-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  37. 2008-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  38. 2008-08-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  39. 2008-06-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  40. 2008-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  41. 2008-03-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  42. 2007-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  43. 2007-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  44. 2007-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections3
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityWard Cove
EPA ZIP on file99928

Areas served

  • Ketchikan, Ketchikan Gateway Borough

Reading this record

Ketchikan H2o is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 25 people in Ward Cove, 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.