Transient Non-Community · PWSID AK2225697

Schwabs Alaska

Serves 31 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateWasilla, Alaska
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On record since 2011: 5 violations. 4 treatment lapses · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2016-09-04.

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
0Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 42% 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

200520102011 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Treatment lapse: 42016 · Treatment lapse: 42016 · Treatment lapse: 42016 · Treatment lapse: 420202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
80% treatment lapse · 420% notice or report · 1

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2016-09-04Groundwater Rule ×4Failure To Address DeficiencyBack in compliance
  2. 2011-01-01Unknown contaminantSanitary Survey (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served31
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityWasilla
EPA ZIP on file99687

Areas served

  • Palmer, Matanuska-Susitna Borough

Reading this record

Schwabs Alaska is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 31 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.