Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID AK2271245

Lksd Kongiganak Hs & Elem

Serves 143 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentBethel, AlaskaServes a school or daycare
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 1992: 49 violations. 3 treatment lapses · 45 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-04-01.

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
45Missed or late test1 open
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 81% 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

1992 · Treatment lapse: 119952000200520102011 · Missed or late test: 52011 · Missed or late test: 52011 · Missed or late test: 52011 · Missed or late test: 52011 · Missed or late test: 520152016 · Treatment lapse: 12016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Missed or late test: 32020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 92020 · Missed or late test: 920202021 · Treatment lapse: 12021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112021 · Missed or late test: 112022 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 22023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
6% treatment lapse · 392% missed or late test · 452% notice or report · 1

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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

9.8 ppb
1.5 ppb
0.58 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  3. 2023-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  4. 2023-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  5. 2023-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2023-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  7. 2023-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  8. 2023-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  9. 2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2022-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  11. 2022-01-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  12. 2021-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  13. 2021-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  14. 2021-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  15. 2021-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  16. 2021-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  17. 2021-04-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  18. 2021-03-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  19. 2021-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  20. 2021-02-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  21. 2021-01-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  22. 2021-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  23. 2021-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  24. 2020-12-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  25. 2020-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
Show the other 24 entries
  1. 2020-11-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  2. 2020-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  3. 2020-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  4. 2020-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  5. 2020-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  6. 2020-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  7. 2020-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2019-11-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  9. 2019-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2019-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2018-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  12. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  13. 2017-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  14. 2017-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  15. 2016-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  16. 2016-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  17. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  18. 2016-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  19. 2011-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2011-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2011-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2011-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2011-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 1992-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served143
Service connections1
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBethel
EPA ZIP on file99559

Areas served

  • Kongiganak, Bethel Census Area

Reading this record

Lksd Kongiganak Hs & Elem is a non-transient non-community that draws from surface water and serves about 143 people in Bethel, 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.