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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS AK2249966

Usfs Kenai Lake Work Center

Operator location Seward, Alaska - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 162 people served; 53 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

162
People served (this PWS)
53
EPA violations (this PWS)
6
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Usfs Kenai Lake Work Center standing, mid SDWIS violation third

162 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 11% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Usfs Kenai Lake Work Center lands in the middle third by violation volume (53), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (162; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 11% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

53
Total EPA violations on record
11%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
162
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
Federal
Connections
9
County
Kenai Peninsula Borough
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
21
Treatment Tech Violations
6

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Groundwater Rule TT 6 2018
Nitrate MR 4 2023
Lead and Copper Rule MR 3 2019
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 2 2024
Barium MR 1 2008
Cadmium MR 1 2008
Chromium MR 1 2008
CYANIDE MR 1 2008
Fluoride MR 1 2008
Mercury MR 1 2008
Beryllium, Total MR 1 2008
Selenium MR 1 2008
Coliform (TCR) MR 1 2007
Thallium, Total MR 1 2008
Antimony, Total MR 1 2008
Nickel MR 1 2008

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Usfs Kenai Lake Work Center has 53 recorded EPA violations, 58% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 41% carry more. 11% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 53), 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)

53 Around the middle fewer violations than 41% 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 Usfs Kenai Lake Work Center

EPA SDWIS lists 162 people served and 9 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

53 violations · 162 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Usfs Kenai Lake Work Center

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.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater