Community Water System · PWS AK2300214
Ambler Community Water System
Operator location Ambler, Alaska - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 261 people served; 679 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 261
- People served (this PWS)
- 679
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 32
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Ambler Community Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third
261 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 5% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Ambler Community Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (679), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (261; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 5% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 679
- Total EPA violations on record
- 5%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 261
- 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
- 70
- County
- Northwest Arctic Borough
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 25
- Monitoring Violations
- 466
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 7
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 29 | 2014 |
| Chlorine | MR | 27 | 2016 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 22 | 2004 |
| Benzene | MR | 17 | 2020 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 17 | 2011 |
| Nitrate | MR | 16 | 2023 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 15 | 2020 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 15 | 2020 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 15 | 2020 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 15 | 2020 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 15 | 2020 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 15 | 2020 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 14 | 2020 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| Toluene | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 10 | 2020 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 8 | 2020 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 8 | 1995 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 8 | 1995 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 8 | 1995 |
| Atrazine | MR | 8 | 1995 |
| Aldicarb sulfoxide | MR | 8 | 1995 |
| Aldicarb | MR | 8 | 1995 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 8 | 1995 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 8 | 1995 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 8 | 1995 |
| Chlordane | MR | 8 | 1995 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 8 | 1995 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 8 | 1995 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Ambler Community Water System has 679 recorded EPA violations, 97% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 3% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (32 of 679), 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)
679 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
Population served record for Ambler Community Water System
EPA SDWIS lists 261 people served and 70 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
679 violations · 261 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 Ambler Community Water System
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