Crawford, City Of, NE
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 16.3 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2028). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Crawford, City Of at a glance
Crawford, City Of serves about 840 people through 516 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 surface water, in Dawes County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3104505; phone on file: 308-665-1300. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Crawford, City Of's lead record
That is up 15.07 ppb from 1.23 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Crawford, City Of is 16.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 16.3 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 1.23 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.26 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.77 ppb |
How Crawford, City Of 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. Crawford, City Of's 16.3 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Nebraska and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Dawes County
5 other systems share Dawes County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Crawford, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Chadron, City Of | 6,257 | 7.05 ppb |
| Pine Ridge Job Corps | 250 | 2.55 ppb |
| Dawes Co Rwd 1 | 59 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whitney, Village Of | 57 | 4.7 ppb |
| Eagles Nest Estates | 52 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Crawford, City Of 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.