Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS AK2121076
Point Higgins Elementary School
Operator location Ketchikan, Alaska - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 300 people served; 119 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 300
- People served (this PWS)
- 119
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 21
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Point Higgins Elementary School standing, high SDWIS violation third
300 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 18% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Point Higgins Elementary School sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (119), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (300; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 18% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 119
- Total EPA violations on record
- 18%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 300
- 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
- Non-Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 2
- County
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough
- School/Daycare
- Yes
- MCL Violations
- 9
- Monitoring Violations
- 40
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 12
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 12 | 2004 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 9 | 2023 |
| Chlorine | MR | 6 | 2016 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 4 | 2007 |
| Nitrate | MR | 3 | 2015 |
| TTHM | MR | 2 | 2006 |
| Barium | MR | 2 | 1992 |
| Chromium | MR | 2 | 1992 |
| Cadmium | MR | 2 | 1992 |
| Mercury | MR | 2 | 1992 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 1992 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 1992 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 2 | 2016 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 1992 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 1 | 1996 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Point Higgins Elementary School has 119 recorded EPA violations, 77% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 23% carry more. 18% of this system's own violations are health-based (21 of 119), 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)
119 Higher than most more violations than 77% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Point Higgins Elementary School
EPA SDWIS lists 300 people served and 2 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
119 violations · 300 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 Point Higgins Elementary School
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Alaska compares on the same EPA violation measures. Alaska systems
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.