Fort Calhoun, City Of, NE
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Fort Calhoun, City Of serves about 1,010 people through 469 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 Washington County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3117907; phone on file: 402-669-5859. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Fort Calhoun, City Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0.74 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fort Calhoun, City Of is 2.24 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.74 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.24 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Fort Calhoun, 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. Fort Calhoun, City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 16th percentile in Nebraska and the 27th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Washington County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fort Calhoun, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Blair, City Of | 8,000 | 1.59 ppb |
| Washington Co Rural Water 1 | 2,009 | 4.1 ppb |
| Lakeland Estates Water Company | 1,552 | 2.3 ppb |
| Arlington, Village Of | 1,350 | 1.45 ppb |
| Kennard, Village Of | 1,350 | 9.6 ppb |
| Washington Co Rural Water 2 | 1,218 | 1.7 ppb |
| Country Estates Mobile Home Park | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Herman, Village Of | 268 | 4.8 ppb |
| Shannon Estates | 100 | 0 (not detected) |
| 133 Estates | 61 | 3.72 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Fort Calhoun, City Of's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Fort Calhoun, 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.