Big Sandy Home Owners Association, NE
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12.2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Big Sandy Home Owners Association
Big Sandy Home Owners Association serves about 85 people through 50 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Saunders County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3121167; phone on file: 402-432-1415. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 11.25 ppb from 0.95 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Big Sandy Home Owners Association is 12.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 12.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 0.95 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.82 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.84 ppb |
How Big Sandy Home Owners Association 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. Big Sandy Home Owners Association's 12.2 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Nebraska and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Saunders County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Big Sandy Home Owners Association. 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 |
| Ashland, City Of | 3,369 | 2.03 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 |
Next steps for Lincoln, NE
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lincoln, 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 Big Sandy Home Owners Association whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.