Community Water System · PWS AK2120127
Saxman
Operator location Ketchikan, Alaska - 26% of 658 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 450 served per SDWIS.
- 450
- People served (this PWS)
- 658
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 173
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Saxman standing, high SDWIS violation third
26% of 658 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 26% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Saxman sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (658), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (450; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 26% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 658
- Total EPA violations on record
- 26%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 450
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Native American
- Connections
- 127
- County
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 133
- Monitoring Violations
- 346
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 40
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 70 | 2011 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 63 | 2013 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 57 | 2025 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 36 | 2021 |
| Nitrate | MR | 10 | 2021 |
| Arsenic | MR | 8 | 2004 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 8 | 1995 |
| TTHM | MR | 8 | 2019 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 7 | 1995 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 7 | 1995 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 7 | 1995 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 7 | 1995 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 7 | 2019 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 7 | 2021 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| Benzene | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| Toluene | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 6 | 2021 |
| Styrene | MR | 6 | 2021 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Saxman has 658 recorded EPA violations, 97% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 3% carry more. 26% of this system's own violations are health-based (173 of 658), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
658 Higher than most more violations than 97% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Saxman
173 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for AK2120127.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
658 violations · 450 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Saxman
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