Is KOTZEBUE MUN. WATER SYSTEM's water safe to drink?
KOTZEBUE MUN. WATER SYSTEM had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. It serves 3,234 people through 777 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
KOTZEBUE MUN. WATER SYSTEM has 261 violations on record in total, 110 of thems health-based - ranking it 60th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 100th percentile nationally.
How KOTZEBUE MUN. WATER SYSTEM compares within AK
KOTZEBUE MUN. WATER SYSTEM's 110 health-based violations sit above 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 KOTZEBUE MUN. WATER SYSTEM is from 2026-01-01 (health-based: 2026-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
KOTZEBUE MUN. 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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: CARBON, TOTAL
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
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 KOTZEBUE MUN. WATER SYSTEM 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. Between the utility's meter and KOTZEBUE MUN. WATER SYSTEM's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 60th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.