Is KENAI WATER SYSTEM's water safe to drink?
KENAI WATER SYSTEM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,700 people get their water from it, across 1,900 connections.
How this compares nationally
KENAI WATER SYSTEM has 271 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,661th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 56th percentile nationally.
How KENAI WATER SYSTEM compares within AK
KENAI WATER SYSTEM's 2 health-based violations sit within the AK average of 8.9, across 35 systems statewide. 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 KENAI WATER SYSTEM is from 2021-01-10 (health-based: 2008-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
KENAI WATER SYSTEM'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:
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Arsenic
The most severe category on record is other regulated metals, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is KENAI WATER SYSTEM'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 KENAI WATER SYSTEM's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,661th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.