Is EIELSON - AIR FORCE BASE's water safe to drink?
EIELSON - AIR FORCE BASE had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. 11,870 people get their water from it, across 716 connections.
EIELSON - AIR FORCE BASE's record against the rest of the country
EIELSON - AIR FORCE BASE has 236 violations on record in total, 4 of thems health-based - ranking it 3,875th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 70th percentile nationally.
How EIELSON - AIR FORCE BASE compares within AK
AK's 35 covered systems average 8.9 health-based violations each; EIELSON - AIR FORCE BASE carries 4, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for EIELSON - AIR FORCE BASE is from 2025-05-10 (health-based: 2025-05-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
EIELSON - AIR FORCE BASE'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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is EIELSON - AIR FORCE BASE's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and EIELSON - AIR FORCE BASE's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,875th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.