City water profile

Water hardness in Kiana

Find official utility reports, understand hardness, and check the water system serving your home in Kiana, Alaska.

Utility-reported hardness

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Evidence comparison rank: —
Matched utilities: 1
Active health records: 0

Your tap water

What does the utility report?

Match the utility name to your water bill. These results describe the utility’s water, not a test at your home. A ZIP can include several water systems.

Utility hardness unavailable in this index

Nearby river or groundwater samples cannot tell us the hardness coming out of your tap. Ask your water provider for total hardness as CaCO₃, or test it at home.

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Your utility’s measurements and compliance records

These are possible serving systems. A record for one system does not apply to every home in this ZIP. Confirm your provider before interpreting a measurement or notice. Federal records can lag current utility notices.

EPA snapshot: 2026Q2. Historical window begins Jan 1, 2021.

Kiana Water System

AK2340230 · Groundwater · 455 people served system-wide

The system names this served city; Census place overlap links the city to this ZCTA.

No active health-based record in this imported snapshot

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Measurements (1)

An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.

Lead (90th percentile)

EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples

Below action level

Reported level: 5.2e-4 mg/L
Action level: 0.015 mg/L

3% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2017 to Dec 31, 2019

Violation history (30)

Imported violation history for Kiana Water System
Rule	Status	Period
Lead and Copper Rule	Unaddressed	Jan 1, 2026
Nitrate	Archived	Jan 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025
Groundwater RuleHealth-based	Resolved	Oct 1, 2023 to Jan 16, 2024
Revised Total Coliform Rule	Resolved	Feb 1, 2023 to Feb 28, 2023
Chlorine	Resolved	Jan 1, 2023 to Mar 14, 2023
Nitrate	Resolved	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2023
1,1-Dichloroethylene	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
1,1,1-Trichloroethane	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Toluene	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
1,1,2-Trichloroethane	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Trichloroethylene	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Styrene	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
DICHLOROMETHANE	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
p-Dichlorobenzene	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
CHLOROBENZENE	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Carbon tetrachloride	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Lead and Copper Rule	Unaddressed	Jan 1, 2023
Xylenes, Total	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
1,2-Dichloroethane	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Vinyl chloride	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
1,2-Dichloropropane	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Ethylbenzene	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Tetrachloroethylene	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Benzene	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
o-Dichlorobenzene	Archived	Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Public Notice	Resolved	May 18, 2022 to Jul 1, 2022
Nitrate	Resolved	Jan 1, 2021 to Dec 31, 2021

City summary

What the indexed records say

Kiana has 1 published ZIP profile across Northwest Arctic Borough. No qualifying nearby hardness observation is available for the city.

Because only one ZIP is represented, the city median and range are the same local estimate. It should not be read as multiple independent samples across the community.

Hardness distribution

How local ZIP estimates compare

Soft0 ZIPs

Moderately hard0 ZIPs

Hard0 ZIPs

Very hard0 ZIPs

0 of 1 ZIP profiles have a hardness estimate. Bars count ZIP profiles, not households or laboratory samples.

Evidence quality

Distance, dates, and confidence

Median nearest distance: — miles
Profiles with evidence: 0/1

Confidence labels

High: 0Moderate: 0Low: 0

Observation window: unavailable to unavailable.

ZIP directory

Water reports in Kiana

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ZIP code

99749

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Practical next steps

Move from index to evidence

1. Open your ZIP. Check distance, dates, confidence, and the associated utility.
2. Read the current CCR. Confirm source water, detections, limits, ranges, and notices.
3. Use a measured hardness result. Confirm health concerns or treatment sizing with the right method.

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Questions people ask

About water in Kiana

Is the water hard?

Check the utility-reported result above when available. Nearby environmental samples cannot establish tap-water hardness. Ask your provider or test your tap.

Is the tap water safe?

Compliance history is utility-wide and cannot guarantee conditions at every tap. Check current notices and test when address-specific evidence is needed.

Do I need treatment?

Choose treatment only after confirming the problem at the property. A softener targets hardness; contaminant treatment requires a matching, verified performance claim.