Community Water System · PWS AK2320264
Nsbu - Nuiqsut
Operator location Anchorage, Alaska - 25% of 272 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 443 served per SDWIS.
- 443
- People served (this PWS)
- 272
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 69
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Nsbu - Nuiqsut standing, high SDWIS violation third
25% of 272 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 25% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Nsbu - Nuiqsut sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (272), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (443; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 25% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 272
- Total EPA violations on record
- 25%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 443
- 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
- 141
- County
- North Slope Borough
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 90
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 69
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 69 | 2000 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 46 | 2025 |
| Chlorine | MR | 10 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 9 | 2006 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 8 | 2019 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 2 | 2021 |
| TTHM | MR | 2 | 2021 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 2 | 1985 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1989 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1989 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1989 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1989 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1989 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 1985 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 1 | 1985 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 1 | 1985 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1989 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 1 | 2025 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1989 |
| Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 1 | 1985 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 1 | 1985 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 1 | 1985 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1989 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Nsbu - Nuiqsut has 272 recorded EPA violations, 90% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 10% carry more. 25% of this system's own violations are health-based (69 of 272), 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)
272 Higher than most more violations than 90% 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 Nsbu - Nuiqsut
69 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for AK2320264.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
272 violations · 443 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 Nsbu - Nuiqsut
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