Is NORTH POLE UTILITIES's water safe to drink?
NORTH POLE UTILITIES has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 4,005 people through 1,615 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
42 total violations and 1 health-based ones put NORTH POLE UTILITIES at the 42th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,507 of 12,903.
Against the AK average
AK's 35 covered systems average 8.9 health-based violations each; NORTH POLE UTILITIES carries 1, not more than typical for the state. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
NORTH POLE UTILITIES's most recent violation on record is dated 2008-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 1994-01-03. Last reported to EPA: 06/19/2026.
The concern categories on record
NORTH POLE UTILITIES'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 NORTH POLE UTILITIES's record does not cover
This is what NORTH POLE UTILITIES 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 NORTH POLE UTILITIES's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,507th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.