Community Water System · PWSID AK2220169

Northwood Apartments

Serves 72 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateWasilla, Alaska

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On record since 2007: 12 violations. 4 treatment lapses · 3 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2022-07-01.

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

4Treatment lapse

3Missed or late test

5Notice or report

More violations on record than 60% 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

One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.

33% treatment lapse · 425% missed or late test · 342% notice or report · 5

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

4.3 ppb

1.2 ppb

0.55 ppb

0.48 ppb

Every violation on record

2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
2018-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2017-02-07Groundwater RuleFailure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
2017-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
2013-12-20Groundwater Rule ×2Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
2008-07-18Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
2007-07-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
2007-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served	72
Service connections	2
Water source	Groundwater
System type	Community Water System
Owner	Private
Status	Active
City	Wasilla
EPA ZIP on file	99654

Areas served

Wasilla, Matanuska-Susitna Borough

Reading this record

Northwood Apartments is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 72 people in Wasilla, 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.