Community Water System · PWS AK2272017
Kwethluk New Piped Water System
Operator location Kwethluk, Alaska - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 760 people served; 1,499 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 760
- People served (this PWS)
- 1,499
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 96
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Kwethluk New Piped Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third
760 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #23,171 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Kwethluk New Piped Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (1,499), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (760; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #23,171 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #95 of 164
- Population · AK
- 1,499
- Total EPA violations on record
- 6%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
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
- 217
- County
- Bethel Census Area
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 20
- Monitoring Violations
- 1,312
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 76
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 107 | 2025 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 71 | 2025 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 58 | 2024 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 55 | 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 34 | 2025 |
| TTHM | MR | 23 | 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 22 | 2025 |
| Endrin | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| Dalapon | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| Diquat | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| Simazine | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| Atrazine | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| LASSO | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| 2,3,7,8-TCDD | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| Endothall | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 21 | 2022 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 21 | 2022 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Kwethluk New Piped Water System has 1,499 recorded EPA violations, 100% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 0% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (96 of 1,499), and it ranks #23,171 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
1,499 Higher than most more violations than 99%+ 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 Kwethluk New Piped Water System
EPA SDWIS lists 760 people served and 217 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
1,499 violations · 760 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.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Kwethluk New Piped Water System
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