Community Water System · PWSID AK2340337

St. Michael Water System

Serves 495 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Native AmericanSt. Michael, 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: 145 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 134 missed or late tests · 9 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

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
2Treatment lapse
134Missed or late test
9Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 92% 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: 219951996 · Missed or late test: 11998 · Missed or late test: 220002003 · Notice or report: 12004 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12008 · Missed or late test: 12008 · Notice or report: 12010 · Missed or late test: 120102011 · Notice or report: 12015 · Missed or late test: 212015 · Missed or late test: 212015 · Missed or late test: 212015 · Missed or late test: 212015 · Missed or late test: 212015 · Missed or late test: 212015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 252016 · Missed or late test: 252016 · Missed or late test: 252016 · Missed or late test: 252016 · Missed or late test: 252016 · Missed or late test: 252016 · Missed or late test: 252016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 422017 · Missed or late test: 422017 · Missed or late test: 422017 · Missed or late test: 422017 · Missed or late test: 422017 · Missed or late test: 422017 · Missed or late test: 422017 · Missed or late test: 422017 · Missed or late test: 422017 · Missed or late test: 422017 · Missed or late test: 422018 · Missed or late test: 102018 · Missed or late test: 102018 · Missed or late test: 102019 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 620202021 · Missed or late test: 82021 · Missed or late test: 82022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Missed or late test: 72022 · Missed or late test: 72023 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 4 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
1% treatment lapse · 292% missed or late test · 1346% notice or report · 9

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 8 results on file · action level 15 ppb

3.2 ppb
2 ppb
2 ppb
2 ppb
2 ppb
1.8 ppb
1.8 ppb
1.8 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2015-10-09Unknown contaminantSanitary Survey (TCR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTBack in compliance
  3. 2024-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  4. 2024-08-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2024-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2023-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2023-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  8. 2023-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  9. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  10. 2022-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  11. 2022-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  12. 2022-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  13. 2022-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  14. 2022-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  15. 2022-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  16. 2022-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  17. 2022-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  18. 2021-10-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  19. 2021-10-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  20. 2021-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2021-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  22. 2021-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  23. 2021-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  24. 2021-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  25. 2021-06-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
Show the other 120 entries
  1. 2020-09-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  2. 2020-09-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  3. 2020-08-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  4. 2020-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  5. 2020-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2020-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2019-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  8. 2019-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  9. 2018-08-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  10. 2018-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  11. 2018-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  12. 2018-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  13. 2018-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  14. 2018-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  15. 2018-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  16. 2018-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  17. 2018-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2018-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  19. 2017-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  20. 2017-07-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  21. 2017-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  22. 2017-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  23. 2017-06-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  24. 2017-05-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  25. 2017-05-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  26. 2017-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  27. 2017-04-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  28. 2017-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  29. 2017-04-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  30. 2017-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  31. 2017-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  32. 2017-03-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  33. 2017-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  34. 2017-02-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  35. 2017-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  36. 2017-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  37. 2017-01-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  38. 2017-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  39. 2017-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  40. 2017-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  41. 2017-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  42. 2017-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  43. 2017-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  44. 2017-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  45. 2017-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  46. 2017-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  47. 2017-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  48. 2017-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  49. 2017-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  50. 2017-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  51. 2017-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  52. 2017-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  53. 2017-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  54. 2017-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  55. 2017-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  56. 2017-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  57. 2017-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  58. 2017-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  59. 2017-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  60. 2017-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  61. 2016-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  62. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  63. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  64. 2016-07-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  65. 2016-07-01Surface water filtration (IESWTR)Monitoring, Turbidity (Enhanced SWTR)Back in compliance
  66. 2016-01-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  67. 2016-01-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  68. 2016-01-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  69. 2016-01-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  70. 2016-01-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  71. 2016-01-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  72. 2016-01-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  73. 2016-01-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  74. 2016-01-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  75. 2016-01-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  76. 2016-01-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  77. 2016-01-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  78. 2016-01-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  79. 2016-01-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  80. 2016-01-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  81. 2016-01-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  82. 2016-01-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  83. 2016-01-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  84. 2016-01-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  85. 2016-01-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  86. 2016-01-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  87. 2015-10-09Unknown contaminantSanitary Survey (TCR)Open
  88. 2015-10-01StyreneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  89. 2015-10-01EthylbenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  90. 2015-10-01TolueneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  91. 2015-10-01BenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  92. 2015-10-01ChlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  93. 2015-10-01TetrachloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  94. 2015-10-011,1,2-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  95. 2015-10-01TrichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  96. 2015-10-011,2-DichloropropaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  97. 2015-10-01Carbon tetrachlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  98. 2015-10-011,1,1-TrichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  99. 2015-10-011,2-DichloroethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  100. 2015-10-01trans-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  101. 2015-10-011,1-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  102. 2015-10-01Vinyl chlorideMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  103. 2015-10-01p-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  104. 2015-10-01o-DichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  105. 2015-10-01DichloromethaneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  106. 2015-10-01Xylenes, TotalMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  107. 2015-10-01cis-1,2-DichloroethyleneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  108. 2015-10-011,2,4-TrichlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  109. 2011-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  110. 2010-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  111. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  112. 2008-07-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Monitoring, Source Water (LT2)Back in compliance
  113. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  114. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  115. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  116. 1998-12-29Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  117. 1998-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  118. 1996-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  119. 1995-07-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  120. 1995-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance

System details

Population served495
Service connections91
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerNative American
StatusActive
CitySt. Michael
EPA ZIP on file99659

Areas served

  • Saint Michael, Nome Census Area

Reading this record

St. Michael Water System is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 495 people in St. Michael, 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.