Cass Co Sid 5 - Buccaneer Bay, NE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.55 ppb (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. 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.
Cass Co Sid 5 - Buccaneer Bay at a glance
Cass Co Sid 5 - Buccaneer Bay serves about 1,417 people through 507 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Cass County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3120035; phone on file: 402-578-7147. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0.82 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cass Co Sid 5 - Buccaneer Bay is 1.72 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.55 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.82 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.82 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.72 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.72 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.73 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.73 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. Cass Co Sid 5 - Buccaneer Bay's 0.55 ppb sits at the 22nd percentile in Nebraska and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
23 other systems share Cass County; 21 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cass Co Sid 5 - Buccaneer Bay. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Plattsmouth, City Of | 6,680 | 1.87 ppb |
| Beaver Lake Association Inc | 3,144 | 1.39 ppb |
| Cass Co Rwd 1 | 2,988 | 2.77 ppb |
| Cass Co Rwd 2 | 1,860 | 1.7 ppb |
| Louisville, City Of | 1,400 | 3.26 ppb |
| Weeping Water, City Of | 1,107 | 0.68 ppb |
| Eagle, Village Of | 1,065 | 2 ppb |
| Elmwood, Village Of | 698 | 3.25 ppb |
| Otoe Co. Rwd #3 - Louisville | 630 | 1.7 ppb |
| Greenwood, Village Of | 600 | 4.7 ppb |
Next steps for Plattsmouth, NE
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Plattsmouth, 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 Cass Co Sid 5 - Buccaneer Bay 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.