Harvard, City Of, NE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.67 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Harvard, City Of at a glance
Harvard, City Of serves about 1,000 people through 397 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 groundwater, in Clay County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3103502; phone on file: 402-762-5167. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (1.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Harvard, City Of is 6.5 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.67 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.23 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.29 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.29 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.02 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.02 ppb |
How Harvard, 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. Harvard, City Of's 0.67 ppb sits at the 24th percentile in Nebraska and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Clay County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Harvard, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sutton, City Of | 1,447 | 3.33 ppb |
| Clay Center, City Of | 730 | 3.88 ppb |
| Edgar, City Of | 428 | 0 (not detected) |
| Glenvil, Village Of | 350 | 1.6 ppb |
| Fairfield, City Of | 333 | 1.65 ppb |
| Trumbull, Village Of | 194 | 1.25 ppb |
| Deweese, Village Of | 58 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ong, Village Of | 48 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Harvard, 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 Harvard, City Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1510 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.