Hickman, City Of, NE
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.33 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. 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.
Hickman, City Of at a glance
Hickman, City Of serves about 3,300 people through 790 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 Lancaster County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3110917; phone on file: 402-792-2212. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (2.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hickman, City Of is 54.5 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.33 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.64 ppb |
| 2019 | 5.96 ppb |
| 2017 | 5.96 ppb |
| 2016 | 54.5 ppb over 15 |
Where this result ranks
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. Hickman, City Of's 2.33 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in Nebraska and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lancaster County
21 other systems share Lancaster County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hickman, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lincoln, City Of | 296,000 | 4.5 ppb |
| Lancaster Co Rwd 1 | 6,000 | 1.5 ppb |
| Waverly, City Of | 4,279 | 1.43 ppb |
| Contempo Mhp | 1,630 | 0.71 ppb |
| Bennet, Village Of | 1,082 | 1.6 ppb |
| Firth, Village Of | 640 | 1.42 ppb |
| Malcolm, Village Of | 457 | 0.95 ppb |
| Hallam, Village Of | 308 | 0.35 ppb |
| Panama, Village Of | 250 | 1.9 ppb |
| Roca, Village Of | 222 | 0.75 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hickman, 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 Hickman, 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. 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.