Laurel, City Of, NE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.92 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 Laurel, City Of
Laurel, City Of serves about 972 people through 519 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 Cedar County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3102705; phone on file: 402-256-3112. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Laurel, City Of's lead record
That is up 3.82 ppb from 1.1 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Laurel, City Of is 4.92 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 4.92 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.72 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.04 ppb |
How Laurel, 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. Laurel, City Of's 4.92 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Nebraska and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Cedar County
11 other systems share Cedar County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Laurel, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cedar-Knox Rural Water Project | 2,500 | 0.65 ppb |
| Hartington, City Of | 1,499 | 1.4 ppb |
| Randolph, City Of | 944 | 2 ppb |
| Coleridge, Village Of | 533 | 2.39 ppb |
| Wynot, Village Of | 220 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fordyce, Village Of | 135 | 1.8 ppb |
| Bow Valley Water Works | 120 | 3 ppb |
| Belden, Village Of | 112 | 4.72 ppb |
| St Helena, Village Of | 89 | - |
| Obert, Village Of | 58 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Laurel, 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 Laurel, 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.