Ashland, City Of, NE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.03 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Ashland, City Of
Ashland, City Of serves about 3,369 people through 1,210 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Saunders County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3115506; phone on file: 402-944-3387. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (1.69 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ashland, City Of is 4.83 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.03 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.69 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.16 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.83 ppb |
How Ashland, City Of compares
Of the 576 Nebraska systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.55 ppb; 7 are over 15 ppb right now and 29 have gone over at some point. Ashland, City Of's 2.03 ppb sits at the 61st percentile in Nebraska and the 73rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Saunders County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ashland, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wahoo, City Of | 4,500 | 2.5 ppb |
| Yutan, City Of | 1,274 | 0.61 ppb |
| Saunders Co Sid 8 | 925 | 2.61 ppb |
| Ceresco, Village Of | 919 | 2.52 ppb |
| Cedar Bluffs, Village Of | 600 | 1.97 ppb |
| Valparaiso, Village Of | 600 | 1.1 ppb |
| Mead, Village Of | 569 | 1.1 ppb |
| Weston, Village Of | 310 | 2.95 ppb |
| Prague, Village Of | 291 | 1.3 ppb |
| Lake Allure Subdivision - Ashland | 179 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ashland, NE may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Ashland, City Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2460 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.