Kearney, City Of, NE
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.48 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 Kearney, City Of
Kearney, City Of serves about 34,000 people through 10,974 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Buffalo County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3101906; phone on file: 308-233-3232. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2.7 ppb from 2.78 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Kearney, City Of is 21.5 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 5.48 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.78 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.81 ppb |
| 2016 | 21.5 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. Kearney, City Of's 5.48 ppb sits at the 89th percentile in Nebraska and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Buffalo County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Kearney, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Gibbon, City Of | 1,878 | 10.2 ppb |
| Ravenna, City Of | 1,457 | 2.5 ppb |
| Shelton, Village Of | 1,059 | 1.6 ppb |
| Elm Creek, Village Of | 901 | 2.23 ppb |
| Buffalo Co Sid 3 - Glenwood Estates | 400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pleasanton, Village Of | 367 | 1.13 ppb |
| Amherst, Village Of | 295 | 3.65 ppb |
| Riverdale, Village Of | 210 | 6.1 ppb |
| Sunset View Mobile Home Park | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Miller, Village Of | 136 | 11 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Kearney, 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 Kearney, 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.