Newman Grove, City Of, NE
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Newman Grove, City Of at a glance
Newman Grove, City Of serves about 721 people through 420 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 Madison County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3111905; phone on file: 402-447-6444. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.79 ppb from 2.79 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Newman Grove, City Of is 2.88 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2.79 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.88 ppb |
How Newman Grove, 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. Newman Grove, City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 15th percentile in Nebraska and the 25th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
6 other systems share Madison County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Newman Grove, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Norfolk, City Of | 26,147 | 4.73 ppb |
| Madison, City Of | 2,135 | 1 ppb |
| Battle Creek, City Of | 1,194 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tilden, City Of | 957 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kpr Us Llc | 350 | 5.74 ppb |
| Meadow Grove, Village Of | 301 | 1.9 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Newman Grove, City Of's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Newman Grove, 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.