Colonial Acres Nursing Home, NE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.98 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Colonial Acres Nursing Home at a glance
Colonial Acres Nursing Home serves about 122 people through 1 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 Richardson County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3120384; phone on file: 785-741-2239. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Colonial Acres Nursing Home's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Colonial Acres Nursing Home is 0.98 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.98 ppb |
| 2025 | 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. Colonial Acres Nursing Home's 0.98 ppb sits at the 31st percentile in Nebraska and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Richardson County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Colonial Acres Nursing Home. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Falls City, City Of | 4,015 | 1.55 ppb |
| Richardson Co Rwd 2 | 980 | 4.95 ppb |
| Humboldt, City Of | 950 | 1.2 ppb |
| Richardson Co Rwd 1 | 812 | 0.78 ppb |
| Dawson, Village Of | 209 | 3.4 ppb |
| Rulo, Village Of | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Verdon, Village Of | 175 | 1.95 ppb |
| Salem, Village Of | 160 | 0.7 ppb |
| Stella, Village Of | 140 | 0.72 ppb |
| Shubert, Village Of | 138 | 0.8 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Humboldt, 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 Colonial Acres Nursing Home 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.