Is JBER-ELMENDORF's water safe to drink?
JBER-ELMENDORF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 30,003 people get their water from it, across 2,010 connections.
JBER-ELMENDORF's record against the rest of the country
JBER-ELMENDORF has 25 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,723th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 40th percentile nationally.
How JBER-ELMENDORF compares within AK
AK's 35 covered systems average 8.9 health-based violations each; JBER-ELMENDORF carries 1, 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 JBER-ELMENDORF is from 2020-01-01 (health-based: 2005-01-05). Last reported to EPA: 06/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
JBER-ELMENDORF'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: Coliform (TCR)
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 this data is and is not
This is what JBER-ELMENDORF 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. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for JBER-ELMENDORF - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.