Douglas Co Sid 177 - Riverside Lakes, NE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.35 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Douglas Co Sid 177 - Riverside Lakes at a glance
Douglas Co Sid 177 - Riverside Lakes serves about 330 people through 206 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Douglas County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3105508; phone on file: 402-208-1403. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.04 ppb from 2.31 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Douglas Co Sid 177 - Riverside Lakes is 3.35 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.35 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.31 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.66 ppb |
Against other Nebraska systems
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. Douglas Co Sid 177 - Riverside Lakes's 3.35 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Nebraska and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Douglas County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Douglas Co Sid 177 - Riverside Lakes. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Utilities District | 660,000 | 12.3 ppb |
| Valley, City Of | 3,294 | 2 ppb |
| Waterloo, Village Of | 962 | 11.7 ppb |
| Maplewood Estates Mobile Home Park | 805 | 0 (not detected) |
| Meadowbrook Estates Water System | 675 | 0 (not detected) |
| Douglas Co Sid 284 -Trailridge Ranches | 450 | 1.2 ppb |
| Douglas Co Sid 277 - The Farm | 450 | 12.2 ppb |
| Douglas Co Sid 303 - Skyline Woods | 450 | 9.8 ppb |
| West Military Water Company | 300 | 1.77 ppb |
| Mount Michael High School | 300 | 11.8 ppb |
Next steps for Waterloo, NE
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Waterloo, 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 Douglas Co Sid 177 - Riverside Lakes 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.