Harrisburg Water System, NE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.31 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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 Harrisburg Water System
Harrisburg Water System serves about 150 people through 51 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Banner County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3120954; phone on file: 308-632-2749. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 2.31 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Harrisburg Water System is 2.31 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.31 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1.13 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
How Harrisburg Water System 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. Harrisburg Water System's 2.31 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in Nebraska and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Next steps for Scottsbluff, NE
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Scottsbluff, 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 Harrisburg Water System 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.