Is CITY AND BOROUGH OF JUNEAU's water safe to drink?
CITY AND BOROUGH OF JUNEAU has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 38,526 people get their water from it, across 9,836 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
CITY AND BOROUGH OF JUNEAU has 128 violations on record in total, 9 of thems health-based - ranking it 2,059th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 84th percentile nationally.
Against the AK average
AK's 35 covered systems average 8.9 health-based violations each; CITY AND BOROUGH OF JUNEAU carries 9, more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
CITY AND BOROUGH OF JUNEAU's most recent violation on record is dated 2021-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 1997-01-09. Last reported to EPA: 06/19/2026.
The concern categories on record
CITY AND BOROUGH OF JUNEAU's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Surface Water Treatment Rule
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What CITY AND BOROUGH OF JUNEAU's record does not cover
This is what CITY AND BOROUGH OF JUNEAU reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 128 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.