Community Water System · PWS AK2340751
Gambell Water System
Operator location Gambell, Alaska - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 669 people served; 849 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 669
- People served (this PWS)
- 849
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 99
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Gambell Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third
669 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 12% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #24,894 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Gambell Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (849), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (669; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 12% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #24,894 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #106 of 164
- Population · AK
- 849
- Total EPA violations on record
- 12%
- 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
- 142
- County
- Nome Census Area
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 22
- Monitoring Violations
- 609
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 77
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 128 | 2025 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 68 | 2013 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 44 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 33 | 2014 |
| Chlorine | MR | 26 | 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 22 | 2025 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 21 | 2024 |
| TTHM | MR | 20 | 2024 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 20 | 2011 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 15 | 2023 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| Chlordane | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| Atrazine | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 10 | 2019 |
| 2,3,7,8-TCDD | MR | 8 | 2019 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 8 | 2019 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 7 | 2022 |
| Nitrate | MR | 7 | 2024 |
| Glyphosate | MR | 6 | 2019 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 6 | 2019 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 6 | 2019 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 6 | 2019 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 6 | 2019 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Gambell Water System has 849 recorded EPA violations, 99% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 1% carry more. 12% of this system's own violations are health-based (99 of 849), and it ranks #24,894 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)
849 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 Gambell Water System
EPA SDWIS lists 669 people served and 142 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
849 violations · 669 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 Gambell Water System
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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