Buffalo Co Sid 3 - Glenwood Estates, NE
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Buffalo Co Sid 3 - Glenwood Estates serves about 400 people through 141 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Buffalo County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3120037; phone on file: 308-627-5227. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.66 ppb from 1.66 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Buffalo Co Sid 3 - Glenwood Estates is 1.66 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.66 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.11 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Buffalo Co Sid 3 - Glenwood Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 13th percentile in Nebraska and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Buffalo County
14 other systems share Buffalo County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Buffalo Co Sid 3 - Glenwood Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kearney, City Of | 34,000 | 5.48 ppb |
| Gibbon, City Of | 1,878 | 10.2 ppb |
| Ravenna, City Of | 1,457 | 2.5 ppb |
| Shelton, Village Of | 1,059 | 1.6 ppb |
| Elm Creek, Village Of | 901 | 2.23 ppb |
| Pleasanton, Village Of | 367 | 1.13 ppb |
| Amherst, Village Of | 295 | 3.65 ppb |
| Riverdale, Village Of | 210 | 6.1 ppb |
| Sunset View Mobile Home Park | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Miller, Village Of | 136 | 11 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Buffalo Co Sid 3 - Glenwood Estates's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Buffalo Co Sid 3 - Glenwood Estates 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.