Clearview Utilities Corp, NE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.8 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.
About Clearview Utilities Corp
Clearview Utilities Corp serves about 69 people through 26 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Buffalo County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3120029; phone on file: 308-233-9720. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Clearview Utilities Corp's lead record
That is up 3.22 ppb from 0.58 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Clearview Utilities Corp is 3.8 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.58 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.58 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.32 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.32 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Clearview Utilities Corp's 3.8 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Nebraska and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Buffalo County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Clearview Utilities Corp. 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 |
| Buffalo Co Sid 3 - Glenwood Estates | 400 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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) |
Next steps for Kearney, NE
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kearney, 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 Clearview Utilities Corp 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.