Mallard Beach Dr #22-Johnson Lake, NE
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.27 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. 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 Mallard Beach Dr #22-Johnson Lake
Mallard Beach Dr #22-Johnson Lake serves about 100 people through 25 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Gosper County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3107312; phone on file: 308-233-1051. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0.63 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mallard Beach Dr #22-Johnson Lake is 6.25 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.27 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.63 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 6.25 ppb |
Against other Nebraska systems
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. Mallard Beach Dr #22-Johnson Lake's 0.27 ppb sits at the 18th percentile in Nebraska and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Gosper County
4 other systems share Gosper County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mallard Beach Dr #22-Johnson Lake. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Elwood, Village Of | 670 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lakeside Trailer Court | 60 | 0 (not detected) |
| Smithfield, Village Of | 50 | 34.6 ppb |
| Bullhead Point | 25 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Johnson Lake, NE
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Johnson Lake, 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 Mallard Beach Dr #22-Johnson Lake 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.