Mccool Junction, Village Of, NE
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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 Mccool Junction, Village Of
Mccool Junction, Village Of serves about 487 people through 234 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in York County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3120195; phone on file: 402-724-2525. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Mccool Junction, Village Of's lead record
That is up 1.99 ppb from 1.01 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mccool Junction, Village Of is 99.14 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.01 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.33 ppb |
| 2019 | 99.14 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 1.27 ppb |
| 2018 | 99.14 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 1.09 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. Mccool Junction, Village Of's 3 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in Nebraska and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share York County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mccool Junction, Village Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| York, City Of | 8,091 | 8.4 ppb |
| Henderson, City Of | 1,080 | 2.81 ppb |
| Nebraska Center For Women | 400 | 3.11 ppb |
| Waco, Village Of | 336 | 2 ppb |
| Bradshaw, Village Of | 275 | 4.1 ppb |
| Gresham, Village Of | 221 | 5.35 ppb |
| Benedict, Village Of | 203 | 1.28 ppb |
| Cottonwood Meadows | 195 | 1.8 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Mccool Junction, 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 Mccool Junction, 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.