Oshkosh, City Of, NE

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 ppb (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. 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 Oshkosh, City Of

Oshkosh, City Of serves about 809 people through 571 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 Garden County, Nebraska. EPA system ID: NE3106901; phone on file: 308-772-3686. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.

Lead results over time

That is down 1.21 ppb from 2.71 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Oshkosh, City Of is 5.74 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

How Oshkosh, 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. Oshkosh, City Of's 1.5 ppb sits at the 49th percentile in Nebraska and the 64th nationally (higher means more lead).

Your move

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Oshkosh, 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 Oshkosh, 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.