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Fat Bear Lodge

At a glance

Fat Bear Lodge (PWSID AK2263072) is an active transient non-community water system in Bristol Bay Borough County, Alaska. It reports serving 32 people through 8 service connections. Its primary water source is groundwater, and EPA lists it as privately owned. EPA's records list 9 violations for this system; none is health-based, and the most recent began in July 2023.

Dataset updated October 2026 . Source: EPA SDWIS/ECHO public records.

Population served

Service connections

Primary source

Groundwater

System type

TNCWS

Transient non-community water system

System record

PWSIDAK2263072

System typeTransient non-community water system

Activity statusActive

Population served32

Service connections8

Primary water sourceGroundwater

Owner typePrivate

Primacy agencyAK state drinking water program

City servedKing Salmon

StateAlaska

ZIP—

CountyBristol Bay Borough County

How does Fat Bear Lodge compare with other water systems in Bristol Bay Borough County?

By EPA's size categories, Fat Bear Lodge is a very small system (500 people or fewer). Bristol Bay Borough County has 30 active public water systems. Its population served is well below the county average of 195 people per system, and accounts for 0.5% of the 5,842 people reported by systems filed under the county. Across Alaska, the 1,322 active systems average 653 people each. Nationally, the average active transient non-community water system reports serving 144 people, so Fat Bear Lodge is well below that figure.

What does “transient non-community water system” mean?

A transient non-community water system serves places where people do not stay long, such as gas stations and campgrounds, and regularly serves at least 25 people a day for at least 60 days a year. Alaska has 689 active transient non-community water systems, 52% of the state's 1,322 active systems. Groundwater means the system draws its water from wells or springs fed by underground aquifers. 1,054 Alaska systems (80%) list groundwater as their primary source.

Who owns and regulates Fat Bear Lodge?

EPA lists Fat Bear Lodge as privately owned. The AK state drinking water program is its primacy agency, the regulator with primary enforcement responsibility for the system under the Safe Drinking Water Act. 21 of the 30 active systems in Bristol Bay Borough County (70%) are also privately owned.

Does Fat Bear Lodge have drinking water violations?

EPA's records list 9 violations for this system; none is health-based, and the most recent began in July 2023. The violations listed here began between July 2016 and July 2023. By type: 5 monitoring, 2 monitoring and reporting, 1 public notice, recordkeeping or other and 1 reporting. The contaminant or rule involved most often is Revised Total Coliform Rule (7 of them). EPA lists 7 as resolved and 2 as archived. Resolved means at least one resolving action is on record: the system returned to compliance, the rule no longer applies, or no further action was needed. Archived means the violation was not marked resolved but is more than five years past the end of the noncompliance period, so it no longer counts toward current compliance status.

Began	Violation	Contaminant or rule	Health-based	Status
2023-07-01	MonitoringMonitoring, Routine (RTCR) · code 3A	Revised Total Coliform Rulecode 8000	No	Archived
2023-05-24	Public notice, recordkeeping or otherSample Siting Plan Errors (RTCR) · code 5A	Revised Total Coliform Rulecode 8000	No	Resolved
2022-06-02	ReportingReport Startup Procedures Cert Form (RTCR) · code 4C	Revised Total Coliform Rulecode 8000	No	Resolved
2022-04-01	MonitoringMonitoring, Routine (RTCR) · code 3A	Revised Total Coliform Rulecode 8000	No	Resolved
2021-07-01	MonitoringMonitoring, Routine (RTCR) · code 3A	Revised Total Coliform Rulecode 8000	No	Archived
2018-01-01	Monitoring and reportingMonitoring, Regular · code 03	Nitratecode 1040	No	Resolved
2017-07-01	MonitoringMonitoring, Routine (RTCR) · code 3A	Revised Total Coliform Rulecode 8000	No	Resolved
2017-01-01	Monitoring and reportingMonitoring, Regular · code 03	Nitratecode 1040	No	Resolved
2016-07-01	MonitoringMonitoring, Routine (RTCR) · code 3A	Revised Total Coliform Rulecode 8000	No	Resolved

All 9 violations in EPA's records, newest first.Labels and codes come from EPA's SDWIS reference tables. A monitoring or reporting violation means a required test or report was missed or late; it does not by itself mean a contaminant was found. "Health-based" marks violations of a legal limit or required treatment.

Fat Bear Lodge: frequently asked questions

Who runs Fat Bear Lodge?

Fat Bear Lodge (PWSID AK2263072) is a transient non-community water system privately owned. It is regulated by the AK state drinking water program.

How many people does Fat Bear Lodge serve?

Fat Bear Lodge reports serving 32 people through 8 service connections in Bristol Bay Borough County, Alaska.

Where does Fat Bear Lodge get its water?

EPA SDWIS lists this system's primary water source as groundwater. Groundwater means the system draws its water from wells or springs fed by underground aquifers.

Does Fat Bear Lodge have any drinking water violations?

EPA's records list 9 violations for this system; none is health-based, and the most recent began in July 2023. A monitoring or reporting violation means a required test or report was missed or late; it does not by itself mean a contaminant was found.

Is Fat Bear Lodge's water safe to drink?

AquaCensus shows EPA compliance records, not current water test results, so it cannot say whether the water is safe at a given moment. EPA's records list 9 violations for this system; none is health-based, and the most recent began in July 2023. For current results, consult EPA ECHO, or the AK state drinking water program.

Where can I find Fat Bear Lodge's water quality report?

The annual Consumer Confidence Report requirement applies to community water systems. Fat Bear Lodge is a transient non-community water system, so it is not required to publish one; like every public water system, it must notify the people it serves about violations under EPA's public notification rules.

Other water systems in Bristol Bay Borough County

Water system	County	Population served	Type	Source
Alaska General Seafoods Naknek - Cannery	Bristol Bay Borough	600	Transient non-community	Groundwater
Trident Seafoods Inc.. Naknek	Bristol Bay Borough	525	Transient non-community	Groundwater
North Pacific Trading, LLC	Bristol Bay Borough	506	Transient non-community	Groundwater
Silver Bay Seafoods Naknek	Bristol Bay Borough	500	Transient non-community	Groundwater
Red Salmon Cannery	Bristol Bay Borough	450	Transient non-community	Groundwater
Leader Creek Bunkhouse #1	Bristol Bay Borough	422	Transient non-community	Groundwater

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About this data

Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) and SDWA violation records, via EPA ECHO, as published October 1, 2026 — AquaCensus refreshes it quarterly. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.

Cite as: AquaCensus, “Fat Bear Lodge, PWSID AK2263072, Alaska”, https://aquacensus.com/water-systems/alaska/fat-bear-lodge-ak2263072 (data as of October 1, 2026).