Hershey, Village Of, NE
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 ppb (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 result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Hershey, Village Of
Hershey, Village Of serves about 665 people through 305 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 Lincoln County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3111101; phone on file: 308-539-3080. 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 1.4 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hershey, Village Of is 15.3 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2.61 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.96 ppb |
| 2019 | 15.3 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 4.63 ppb |
| 2018 | 15.3 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 1.34 ppb |
How Hershey, Village 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. Hershey, Village Of's 1.4 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in Nebraska and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Lincoln County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hershey, Village Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| North Platte, City Of | 25,000 | 7.59 ppb |
| Sutherland, Village Of | 1,313 | 2.54 ppb |
| Brady, Village Of | 383 | 0.95 ppb |
| Wallace, Village Of | 316 | 0 (not detected) |
| Maxwell, Village Of | 315 | 0.76 ppb |
| East Maloney Homeowners Assn | 50 | 0.3 ppb |
| Buffalo Bill Mobile Home Park | 20 | 5.2 ppb |
Next steps for Hersey, NE
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hersey, 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 Hershey, Village 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.