Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    16

  • Community Water Systems

    11

  • Systems with Violations

    8

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    0

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    17

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    03/04/2019

  • Population Served

    8,887

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    16.67%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    12

  • CWA Total Violations

    24

The American Community Survey

  • HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    335

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    18.9%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    7,682

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $77,647

  • PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES BELOW POVERTY LEVEL (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    9.3%

  • MALE

    4,105

  • FEMALE

    3,577

  • MEDIAN AGE

    29.2

  • MULTIRACIAL

    7,486

  • WHITE

    737

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    95

  • LATINO

    196

  • ASIAN

    99

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    6,180

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    11

To learn more about individual water systems and violations please visit the echo.epa.gov interactive map for this county here: https://echo.epa.gov/facilities/facility-search/results?p_st=AK&p_fips=02188 Other .gov state water resources: https://dnr.alaska.gov/mlw/water/data/https://waterdata.usgs.gov/ak/nwis/rt Additional state water resources:https://water.noaa.gov/state/AK#@=-153.8868526,58.1024866,2&b=topographic&g=obsFcst,1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!0!0!0!0!0,0.5,1!1!1!1!0,0,0,true&ab=0,0,#D94B4A,1,1,1,#cccccc,1,0,0,#B243B1,1,0,0,#98E09A,1,false&a=hydrologic,0.35,false&s=0,0,0.9,0.9,false&n=false,#72afe9,0.9,0,0.9,0,0.9,false&p=false,0.75,0,7,0,1,2025,9,24,0,false&d=0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,#006EFF,1,#006EFF,1,#006EFF,false&q=state%3AAK