American Samoa: public water systems and their UCMR 5 PFAS results

Every public water system EPA lists for the state, tested or not

UCMR 5EPA monitoring data
10Systems listed
1Sampled under UCMR 5
1With PFAS detected
0Highest result at or above a 2024 EPA limit

10 community and non-transient non-community water systems are listed for American Samoa in EPA SDWIS. 1 were sampled under UCMR 5; 1 of those had at least one PFAS result at or above the reporting level, and 0 had a highest single result at or above a 2024 EPA limit (PFOA or PFOS 4 ppt, or Hazard Index 1).

These are monitoring results collected under EPA's Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 5) at entry points, where treated water enters the distribution system; they are not tap-water samples. They are not compliance determinations: compliance with EPA's 2024 PFAS limits is judged on running annual averages of compliance monitoring, required from 2029, so a single UCMR 5 result at or above a limit is not a violation. “< MRL” means the compound was not quantified at EPA's minimum reporting level; it does not mean zero.

Sampled under UCMR 5 (1)

SystemPWSIDCityPopulationHighest PFOA (ppt)Highest PFOS (ppt)Highest HIHighest single result
Central AsgAS9711948Pago Pago45,315<MRL<MRL0.002Hazard Index below its limit

Not tested under UCMR 5 (9)

UCMR 5 required monitoring by systems serving 3,300 or more people and by a representative sample of smaller systems. The systems below have no UCMR 5 results in EPA's data. Not tested is not the same as not detected: the absence of results says nothing about PFAS in their water.

SystemPWSIDTypeCityPopulationCounties
Afono AsgAS9710858CWSPago Pago327Eastern District
Aoa AsgAS9710652CWSPago Pago344Eastern District
Aunuu AsgAS9310751CWSPago Pago402Eastern District
Fagasa AsgAS9711356CWSPago Pago577Western District
Fitiuta AsgAS9630145CWSPago Pago213Manu'a District
Masefau AsgAS9710855CWSPago Pago457Eastern District
Ofu - Olosega AsgAS9430546CWSPago Pago270Manu'a District
Tau-Faleasao AsgAS9630243CWSPago Pago236Manu'a District
Vatia AsgAS9710657CWSPago Pago460Eastern District